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2272\. Substring With Largest Variance
Hard
The **variance** of a string is defined as the largest difference between the number of occurrences of **any** `2` characters present in the string. Note the two characters may or may not be the same.
Given a string `s` consisting of lowercase English letters only, return _the **largest variance** possible among all **substrings** of_ `s`.
A **substring** is a contiguous sequence of characters within a string.
**Example 1:**
**Input:** s = "aababbb"
**Output:** 3
**Explanation:** All possible variances along with their respective substrings are listed below: 
- Variance 0 for substrings "a", "aa", "ab", "abab", "aababb", "ba", "b", "bb", and "bbb". 
- Variance 1 for substrings "aab", "aba", "abb", "aabab", "ababb", "aababbb", and "bab". 
- Variance 2 for substrings "aaba", "ababbb", "abbb", and "babb". 
- Variance 3 for substring "babbb". 
  
Since the largest possible variance is 3, we return it.
**Example 2:**
**Input:** s = "abcde"
**Output:** 0
**Explanation:** No letter occurs more than once in s, so the variance of every substring is 0.
**Constraints:**
*   1 <= s.length <= 104
*   `s` consists of lowercase English letters.    © 2015 - 2025 Weber Informatics LLC | Privacy Policy