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## Printer Errors
In a factory a printer prints labels for boxes. For one kind of boxes the printer has to use colors which, for the sake of simplicity, are named with letters from `a` to `m`.
The colors used by the printer are recorded in a control string. For example a *"good"* control string would be `aaabbbbhaijjjm` meaning that the printer used three times color a, four times color b, one time color h then one time color a...
Sometimes there are problems: lack of colors, technical malfunction and a *"bad"* control string is produced e.g. `aaaxbbbbyyhwawiwjjjwwm` with letters not from `a` to `m`.
You have to write a function printer_error which given a string will return the error rate of the printer as a string representing a rational whose numerator is the number of errors and the denominator the length of the control string. Don't reduce this fraction to a simpler expression.
The string has a length greater or equal to one and contains only letters from `a` to `z`.
**Examples:**
```rust
s = "aaabbbbhaijjjm"
printer_error(s) => "0/14"
s = "aaaxbbbbyyhwawiwjjjwwm"
printer_error(s) => "8/22"
```
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