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Consider the standard dynamic programming approach to find the length of the Longest Common Subsequence (LC
- S of two strings, text1 and text2. The dp table is initialized with dimensions (len(text1) + 1) x (len(text2) + 1). Given text1 = "ABC" and text2 = "AXBY", what will be the value of dp[0][3] and dp[2][0] after the initialization and the first row/column filling steps of the following Python code? def lcs_length(text1, text2): m = len(text1) n = len(text2) dp = [[0] * (n + 1) for _ in range(m + 1)] # Initialization (first row and column are already 0 by default in Python list comprehension) # for i in range(m + 1): # dp[i][0] = 0 # for j in range(n + 1): # dp[0][j] = 0 # Filling the DP table for i in range(1, m + 1): for j in range(1, n + 1): if text1[i - 1] == text2[j - 1]: dp[i][j] = 1 + dp[i - 1][j - 1] else: dp[i][j] = max(dp[i - 1][j], dp[i][j - 1]) return dp[m][n] # For this question, we only care about the state after initialization # and before the main loops start filling values beyond the first row/column. # The Python list comprehension [[0] * (n + 1) for _ in range(m + 1)] # already initializes all cells to 0.
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