Compress Consecutive Chars
Write a function that compresses a string by replacing runs of identical characters with the character followed by the count.
Union Find Class
Implement a UnionFind class with find and union operations supporting path compression and union by size.
Compress Bits Run
Write a function that compresses a binary string by representing consecutive identical bits as a count-bit pair.
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