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Statement

 Goal

You will be given a word word which shall be scrambled in all possible ways to form a dictionary. Your program must find the index of the word word in the dictionary so formed.

For example, if abcd is the word, you must return 1. And for the word abdc, it is 2.

Here is a sample of a dictionary formed by bac,
1) abc
2) acb
3) bac
4) bca
5) cab
6) cba
The order of "bac" in this dictionary is 3.

Note:

1) The words are all arranged alphabetically in the dictionary.
2) Do not forget to eliminate the duplicate words.
3) The word can contain repeating letters as well, like in mississippi.
4) Optimize your code to handle longer words as well.
5) The words formed by the jumbling can be meaningful or meaningless.
6) The word in the input is always in lowercase.
Input
Line 1: A word word in lowercase
Output
Line 1: A num indicating the order of the word in the dictionary so formed.
Constraints
0 < length word < 50
word is lowercase
Example
Input
abcd
Output
1

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