Given two strings text1 and text2, return the length of their longest common subsequence.

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. (eg, “ace” is a subsequence of “abcde” while “aec” is not). A common subsequence of two strings is a subsequence that is common to both strings.

If there is no common subsequence, return 0.

Example 1:

Input: text1 = "abcde", text2 = "ace"
Output: 3
Explanation: The longest common subsequence is "ace" and its length is 3.


Example 2:

Input: text1 = "abc", text2 = "abc"
Output: 3
Explanation: The longest common subsequence is "abc" and its length is 3.


Example 3:

Input: text1 = "abc", text2 = "def"
Output: 0
Explanation: There is no such common subsequence, so the result is 0.


Constraints:

• 1 <= text1.length <= 1000
• 1 <= text2.length <= 1000
• The input strings consist of lowercase English characters only.

Solution: DP

Use dp[i][j] to represent the length of longest common sub-sequence of text1[0:i] and text2[0:j]
dp[i][j] = dp[i – 1][j – 1] + 1 if text1[i – 1] == text2[j – 1] else max(dp[i][j – 1], dp[i – 1][j])

Time complexity: O(mn)
Space complexity: O(mn) -> O(n)

C++/V3

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