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Educational Codeforces Round 163

A. Special Characters

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You are given an integer π‘›.

Your task is to build a string of uppercase Latin letters. There must be exactly π‘› special characters in this string. Let's call a character special if it is equal to exactly one of its neighbors.

For example, there are 6 special characters in the AAABAACC string (at positions: 1, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 8).

Print any suitable string or report that there is no such string.


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