3.1 - Longest Common Subword Problem
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Define what a common subword is in your own words.
💡 Hint: Think about parts of words you see in other words.
What does the brute force method do?
💡 Hint: Consider how we could manually find matches.
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What is a common subword?
💡 Hint: Think of segments of strings.
True or False: The brute force method has a time complexity of O(m * n).
💡 Hint: Consider the multiple comparisons involved.
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Given the words 'intention' and 'attention', find their longest common subword using dynamic programming.
💡 Hint: Display a matrix to find each character match.
Write an efficient algorithm in pseudo-code that uses dynamic programming to find the length of the longest common subword between two given strings.
💡 Hint: Ensure to handle base cases properly when initializing the table.
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