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Given a string word, return the sum of the number of vowels ('a', 'e','i','o', and'u')in every substring of word.

A substring is a contiguous (non-empty) sequence of characters within a string.

Note: Due to the large constraints, the answer may not fit in a signed 32-bit integer. Please be careful during the calculations.

 

Example 1:

Input: word = "aba" Output: 6 Explanation: All possible substrings are: "a", "ab", "aba", "b", "ba", and "a". - "b" has 0 vowels in it - "a", "ab", "ba", and "a" have 1 vowel each - "aba" has 2 vowels in it Hence, the total sum of vowels = 0 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 2 = 6. 

Example 2:

Input: word = "abc" Output: 3 Explanation: All possible substrings are: "a", "ab", "abc", "b", "bc", and "c". - "a", "ab", and "abc" have 1 vowel each - "b", "bc", and "c" have 0 vowels each Hence, the total sum of vowels = 1 + 1 + 1 + 0 + 0 + 0 = 3. 

Example 3:

Input: word = "ltcd" Output: 0 Explanation: There are no vowels in any substring of "ltcd". 

 

Constraints:

  • 1 <= word.length <= 105
  • word consists of lowercase English letters.

Related Topics

[Math] [String] [Dynamic Programming] [Combinatorics]

Hints

Hint 1 Since generating substrings is not an option, can we count the number of substrings a vowel appears in?
Hint 2 How much does each vowel contribute to the total sum?
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