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The Encoded Signal

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Domain
Python
Difficulty
medium
Seniority
mid

Problem

Our telemetry wire format encodes letter frequencies in a compact string representation. Write a function called decode_frequency that parses this encoding and returns a 26-element list for a through z. Digits 0-9 map to a-j directly. A two-digit number followed by '#' maps to k(10) through z(26). A number in parentheses after a character indicates repetitions; without parentheses, the count is 1.

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