// ~~ icebear love attttttt ~~
#include <bits/stdc++.h>
using namespace std;
typedef long long ll;
typedef pair<int, int> ii;
typedef pair<int, ii> iii;
template<class T>
bool minimize(T &a, const T &b) {
if (a > b) return a = b, true;
return false;
}
template<class T>
bool maximize(T &a, const T &b) {
if (a < b) return a = b, true;
return false;
}
#define FOR(i,a,b) for(int i=(a); i<=(b); ++i)
#define FORR(i,a,b) for(int i=(a); i>=(b); --i)
#define REP(i, n) for(int i=0; i<(n); ++i)
#define RED(i, n) for(int i=(n)-1; i>=0; --i)
#define MASK(i) (1LL << (i))
#define mp make_pair
#define pb push_back
#define fi first
#define se second
#define all(x) x.begin(), x.end()
#define task "keyboard"
const int MOD = 1e9 + 22071997;
const int inf = 1e9 + 27092008;
const ll INF = 1e18 + 27092008;
const int N = MASK(20) + 5;
int n, m;
string s;
int cnt[25][25];
int dp[N];
void init(void) {
cin >> n >> m >> s;
FOR(i, 1, n - 1) {
int u = s[i - 1] - 'a';
int v = s[i] - 'a';
cnt[u][v]++;
cnt[v][u]++;
}
}
void process(void) {
REP(mask, MASK(m)) dp[mask] = inf;
dp[0] = 0;
REP(mask, MASK(m)) REP(i, m) if (!((mask >> i) & 1)) {
int pos = __builtin_popcount(mask);
int sum = 0;
REP(j, m) if (j != i) {
if ((mask >> j) & 1) sum += cnt[i][j];
else sum -= cnt[i][j];
}
minimize(dp[mask | MASK(i)], dp[mask] + pos * sum);
}
cout << dp[MASK(m) - 1];
}
int main() {
ios_base::sync_with_stdio(0);
cin.tie(0); cout.tie(0);
if (fopen(task".inp", "r")) {
freopen(task".inp", "r", stdin);
freopen(task".out", "w", stdout);
}
int tc = 1;
// cin >> tc;
while(tc--) {
init();
process();
}
return 0;
}
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