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import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.util.InputMismatchException;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.io.InputStream;

/**
 * Built using CHelper plug-in
 * Actual solution is at the top
 */
public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        InputStream inputStream = System.in;
        OutputStream outputStream = System.out;
        InputReader in = new InputReader(inputStream);
        PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(outputStream);
        CTheFairNutAndString solver = new CTheFairNutAndString();
        solver.solve(1, in, out);
        out.close();
    }

    static class CTheFairNutAndString {
        public void solve(int testNumber, InputReader in, PrintWriter out) {
            String S = in.next();
            ArrayList<Long> A = new ArrayList<>();
            long c = 0;
            for (int i = 0; i < S.length(); i++) {
                if (S.charAt(i) == 'b' && c != 0) {
                    A.add(c);
                    c = 0;
                } else if (S.charAt(i) == 'a') {
                    c++;
                }
            }
            if (c != 0) {
                A.add(c);
            }
            if (A.size() == 0) {
                out.println(0);
            } else {
                long ans = 1;
                for (long e : A) {
                    ans *= (e + 1);
                }
                out.println(ans - 1);
            }
        }

    }

    static class InputReader {
        private InputStream stream;
        private byte[] buf = new byte[1024];
        private int curChar;
        private int numChars;

        public InputReader(InputStream stream) {
            this.stream = stream;
        }

        public int read() {
            if (numChars == -1)
                throw new InputMismatchException();
            if (curChar >= numChars) {
                curChar = 0;
                try {
                    numChars = stream.read(buf);
                } catch (IOException e) {
                    throw new InputMismatchException();
                }
                if (numChars <= 0)
                    return -1;
            }
            return buf[curChar++];
        }

        public String next() {
            int c = read();
            while (isSpaceChar(c))
                c = read();
            StringBuffer res = new StringBuffer();
            do {
                res.appendCodePoint(c);
                c = read();
            } while (!isSpaceChar(c));
            return res.toString();
        }

        private boolean isSpaceChar(int c) {
            return c == ' ' || c == '\n' || c == '\r' || c == '\t' || c == -1;
        }

    }
}

