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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+import itertools
+import sys
+from collections import Counter
+from copy import deepcopy
+from typing import Dict, Iterator, List, NamedTuple, Tuple, TypeVar
+
+
+class Template(NamedTuple):
+    bigrams: Counter[str]
+    counts: Counter[str]
+
+
+Rules = Dict[str, str]
+
+T = TypeVar("T")
+
+
+def nth(iterable: Iterator[T], n: int) -> T:
+    return next(itertools.islice(iterable, n, None))
+
+
+def solve(input: List[str]) -> int:
+    def parse() -> Tuple[Template, Rules]:
+        bigrams = Counter(a + b for a, b in zip(input[0], input[0][1:]))
+        counts = Counter(input[0])
+        rules = {
+            pair: insertion
+            for pair, insertion in map(lambda s: s.split(" -> "), input[2:])
+        }
+        return Template(bigrams, counts), rules
+
+    def step(template: Template, rules: Rules) -> Template:
+        bigrams: Counter[str] = Counter()
+        counts = deepcopy(template.counts)
+        for p, n in template.bigrams.items():
+            if p in rules:
+                insertion = rules[p]
+                bigrams[p[0] + insertion] += n
+                bigrams[insertion + p[1]] += n
+                counts[insertion] += n
+            else:
+                # Counts are not changed in this case
+                bigrams[p] = n
+        return Template(bigrams, counts)
+
+    def polymerize(template: Template, rules: Rules) -> Iterator[Template]:
+        while True:
+            yield (template := step(template, rules))
+
+    def score(template: Template) -> int:
+        nums = [n for __, n in template.counts.most_common()]
+        return nums[0] - nums[-1]
+
+    template, rules = parse()
+    return score(nth(polymerize(template, rules), 40 - 1))
+
+
+def main() -> None:
+    input = [line.strip() for line in sys.stdin.readlines()]
+    print(solve(input))
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()