Delete Operation for Two Strings: coding question

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Find the minimum number of single-character deletions across two strings to make them identical; this reduces to computing their longest common subsequence (LCS), with the answer = len(word1)+len(word2)-2*LCS, typically solved via O(n*m) dynamic programming for lengths up to 500.

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