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There are n balls on a table, each ball has a color black or white.

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You are given a 0-indexed binary string s of length n, where 1 and 0 represent black and white balls, respectively.

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In each step, you can choose two adjacent balls and swap them.

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Return the minimum number of steps to group all the black balls to the right and all the white balls to the left.

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Example 1:

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\nInput: s = "101"\nOutput: 1\nExplanation: We can group all the black balls to the right in the following way:\n- Swap s[0] and s[1], s = "011".\nInitially, 1s are not grouped together, requiring at least 1 step to group them to the right.
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Example 2:

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\nInput: s = "100"\nOutput: 2\nExplanation: We can group all the black balls to the right in the following way:\n- Swap s[0] and s[1], s = "010".\n- Swap s[1] and s[2], s = "001".\nIt can be proven that the minimum number of steps needed is 2.\n
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Example 3:

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\nInput: s = "0111"\nOutput: 0\nExplanation: All the black balls are already grouped to the right.\n
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