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You are given two strings, A and B. Answer, what is the smallest number of operations you need to
transform A to B?
Operations are:
- Delete one letter from one of strings
- Insert one letter into one of strings
- Replace one of letters from one of strings with another letter
Input
T - number of test cases
For each test case:
- String A
- String B
Both strings will contain only uppercase characters and they won't be longer than 2000 characters.
There will be 10 test cases in data set.
Output
For each test case, one line, minimum number of operations.
Example
Input: 1 FOOD MONEY Output: 4
Added by: | Mislav Balunović |
Date: | 2010-02-28 |
Time limit: | 15s |
Source limit: | 50000B |
Memory limit: | 1536MB |
Cluster: | Cube (Intel G860) |
Languages: | All except: NODEJS OBJC PERL6 SQLITE VB.NET |
Resource: | Internet |
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2014-07-24 23:09:01 beginner
easy one. my 50th ac!! |
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2014-07-19 14:22:57 Ankit Aggarwal
use dynamic memory allocation!! |
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2014-07-08 10:32:44 Rajat (1307086)
Famous Levenshtein distance problem. One of best question for dynamic programming intro.Read more of it at en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance |
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2014-07-03 19:16:48 excursionist
my 100th :D |
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2014-06-20 08:25:20 Atreyee
Getting TLE even after doing it by DP :( |
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2014-06-10 13:39:56 Vikas Yadav
nice dp prob, AC in 1 go :-) |
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2014-06-07 16:09:24 fallacy
TLE :( ? |
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2014-06-05 11:18:37 sanban
For 1 ALLAHABAD YATINDRA shouldn't the ans be 6?? as we can add an A and then replace the remaining Y,T,I,N,R with A,L,L,H,B...making it six steps |
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2014-05-21 11:51:59 Agam Gupta
got AC :) Last edit: 2014-05-21 12:20:01 |
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2014-03-30 07:57:57 Rishav Goyal
i bet my sol is correct.!! |