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Given two strings a and b of equal length, what's the longest string (S ) that can be constructed such that it is a child of both? A string x is said to be a child of a string y if x can be formed by deleting zero or more characters from y . For example, ``abcd" and ``abdc" has two children with maximum length 3, ``abc" and ``abd" . Note that we will not consider ``abcd" as a common

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