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mediumDynamic Programming

Longest Common Subsequence

## Problem

Given two strings `text1` and `text2`, return *the length of their longest common subsequence*. If there is no common subsequence, return `0`.

A **subsequence** of a string is a new string generated from the original string with some characters (can be none) deleted without changing the relative order of the remaining characters.

Examples

Input
text1 = "abcde", text2 = "ace"
Output
3
LCS is "ace".
Input
text1 = "abc", text2 = "abc"
Output
3
LCS is "abc".
Input
text1 = "abc", text2 = "def"
Output
0
No common subsequence.

Constraints

1 <= text1.length, text2.length <= 1000 text1 and text2 consist of only lowercase English characters.
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