Codeforces I. Palindrome Pairs （Hash）

I. Palindrome Pairs

time limit per test

2 seconds

memory limit per test

256 megabytes

input

standard input

output

standard output

After learning a lot about space exploration, a little girl named Ana wants to change the subject.

Ana is a girl who loves palindromes (string that can be read the same backwards as forward). She has learned how to check for a given string whether it's a palindrome or not, but soon she grew tired of this problem, so she came up with a more interesting one and she needs your help to solve it:

You are given an array of strings which consist of only small letters of the alphabet. Your task is to find how many palindrome pairs are there in the array. A palindrome pair is a pair of strings such that the following condition holds: at least one permutation of the concatenation of the two strings is a palindrome. In other words, if you have two strings, let's say "aab" and "abcac", and you concatenate them into "aababcac", we have to check if there exists a permutation of this new string such that it is a palindrome (in this case there exists the permutation "aabccbaa").

Two pairs are considered different if the