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You are given two strings, A and B. Answer, what is the smallest number of operations you need totransform A to B?Operations are:Delete one letter from one of stringsInsert one letter into one of stringsReplace one of letters from one of strings with another letterInputT - number of test casesFor each test case:String AString BBoth strings will contain only uppercase characters and they won't be longer than 2000 characters. There will be 10 test cases in data set.OutputFor each test case, one line, minimum number of operations.ExampleInput:1FOODMONEYOutput:4

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You are given two strings, A and B. Answer, what is the smallest number of operations you need totransform A to B?Operations are:Delete one letter from one of stringsInsert one letter into one of stringsReplace one of letters from one of strings with another letterInputT - number of test casesFor each test case:String AString BBoth strings will contain only uppercase characters and they won't be longer than 2000 characters. There will be 10 test cases in data set.OutputFor each test case, one line, minimum number of operations.ExampleInput:1FOODMONEYOutput:4

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Solution

This problem can be solved using the concept of Dynamic Programming, specifically the Edit Distance algorithm. Here are the steps to solve this problem:

  1. Initialize a 2D array dp of size (n+1) x (m+1), where n and m are the lengths of strings A and B respectively. dp[i][j] will hold the minimum number of operations required to transform the first i characters of A into the first j characters of B.

  2. Set the first row and first column of dp. dp[i][0] = i

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