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You are given a string word, and an integer numFriends.



Alice is organizing a game for her numFriends friends. There are multiple rounds in the game, where in each round:




  • word is split into numFriends non-empty strings, such that no previous round has had the exact same split.

  • All the split words are put into a box.



Find the lexicographically largest string from the box after all the rounds are finished.



 


Example 1:




Input: word = "dbca", numFriends = 2



Output: "dbc"



Explanation: 



All possible splits are:




  • "d" and "bca".

  • "db" and "ca".

  • "dbc" and "a".




Example 2:




Input: word = "gggg", numFriends = 4



Output: "g"



Explanation: 



The only possible split is: "g", "g", "g", and "g".




 


Constraints:




  • 1 <= word.length <= 5 * 103

  • word consists only of lowercase English letters.

  • 1 <= numFriends <= word.length


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