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Given a string s and an integer k, partition s into k substrings such that the sum of the number of letter changes required to turn each substring into a semi-palindrome is minimized.

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Return an integer denoting the minimum number of letter changes required.

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Example 1:

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\nInput: s = "abcac", k = 2\nOutput: 1\nExplanation: We can divide s into substrings "ab" and "cac". The string "cac" is already a semi-palindrome. If we change "ab" to "aa", it becomes a semi-palindrome with d = 1.\nIt can be shown that there is no way to divide the string "abcac" into two semi-palindrome substrings. Therefore, the answer would be at least 1.
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Example 2:

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\nInput: s = "abcdef", k = 2\nOutput: 2\nExplanation: We can divide it into substrings "abc" and "def". Each of the substrings "abc" and "def" requires one change to become a semi-palindrome, so we need 2 changes in total to make all substrings semi-palindrome.\nIt can be shown that we cannot divide the given string into two substrings in a way that it would require less than 2 changes.
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Example 3:

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\nInput: s = "aabbaa", k = 3\nOutput: 0\nExplanation: We can divide it into substrings "aa", "bb" and "aa".\nThe strings "aa" and "bb" are already semi-palindromes. Thus, the answer is zero.\n
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