#3208

Alternating Groups II

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Description

There is a circle of red and blue tiles. You are given an array of integers colors and an integer k. The color of tile i is represented by colors[i]:

- colors[i] == 0 means that tile i is red.

- colors[i] == 1 means that tile i is blue.

An alternating group is every k contiguous tiles in the circle with alternating colors (each tile in the group except the first and last one has a different color from its left and right tiles).

Return the number of alternating groups.

Note that since colors represents a circle, the first and the last tiles are considered to be next to each other.

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