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Remove Duplicate Letters for the Largest Result

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Problem statement

Given a lowercase string s, remove characters so that every distinct letter appears exactly once. The remaining characters must preserve their original relative order.

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Example 1

s = "bcabc"return = "cab"

The subsequence cab contains each distinct letter once and is lexicographically largest.

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