Longest Common Subsequence Problem - Relation To Other Problems

Relation To Other Problems

For two strings and, the length of the shortest common supersequence is related to the length of the LCS by

The edit distance when only insertion and deletion is allowed (no substitution), or when the cost of the substitution is the double of the cost of an insertion or deletion, is:

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