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author: @ankingcodes
created: 2021-08-08 09:06:36.673565
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#include<bits/stdc++.h>
#include<algorithm>
#include<ext/pb_ds/assoc_container.hpp>
#include<ext/pb_ds/tree_policy.hpp>
using namespace __gnu_pbds;
using namespace std;
#define ll long long
#define INF 1e18
#define f first
#define s second
#define mp make_pair
#define pb push_back
const int MOD = (int) 1e9 + 7;
typedef tree<int, null_type, less<int>, rb_tree_tag,
tree_order_statistics_node_update> PBDS;
typedef tree<pair<int, int>, null_type, less<pair<int, int>>, rb_tree_tag,
tree_order_statistics_node_update> pairPBDS;
int main(){
ios_base::sync_with_stdio(false);
cin.tie(NULL);
string a, b; cin >> a >> b;
int szA = a.size(), szB = b.size();
int dp[szA+1][szB+1];
memset(dp, MOD, sizeof dp);
dp[0][0] = 0;
for (int i=0;i<=szA;i++) {
for (int j=0;j<=szB;j++) {
if (i) dp[i][j] = min(dp[i][j], dp[i-1][j]+1);
if (j) dp[i][j] = min(dp[i][j], dp[i][j-1]+1);
if (i && j) dp[i][j] = min(dp[i][j], dp[i-1][j-1] + (a[i-1]!=b[j-1]));
}
}
cout << dp[szA][szB] << endl;
return 0;
}