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Longest Common Subsequence
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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.

Example 1:

Input:
abcde
ace
Output: 3

Example 2:

Input:
abc
abc
Output: 3

Example 3:

Input:
abc
def
Output: 0

Constraints:

  • 1 ≤ text1.length, text2.length ≤ 1000
  • text1 and text2 consist of only lowercase English characters

Input format: Two lines, each containing a string.

Output format: Integer — LCS length.

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