Statement

Suppose you are given two strings. You need to find the length of the longest common subsequence between these two strings.

A subsequence is a string formed by removing some characters from the original string, while maintaining the relative position of the remaining characters. For example, “abd” is a subsequence of “abcd”, where the removed character is “c”.

If there is no common subsequence, then return 0.

Let’s say you have the following two strings:

  • “cloud”
  • “found”

The longest common subsequence between these two strings is “oud”, which has a length of 33.

Constraints:

  • 11 \leq str1.length 2.5×103\leq 2.5 \times 10^3
  • 11 \leq str2.length 2.5×103\leq 2.5 \times 10^3
  • str1 and str2 contain only lowercase English characters.

Examples

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