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LCS

(classic problem)

Definition: Either longest common subsequence or longest common substring.

Note: The longest common substring is contiguous, while the longest common subsequence need not be.

Author: PEB


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Paul E. Black, "LCS", in Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures [online], Vreda Pieterse and Paul E. Black, eds. 6 July 2006. (accessed TODAY) Available from: http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/LCS.html