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Given three strings, S1, S2, and S3. The characters at the same index in S1 and S2 are considered equivalent and follow the transitive property. For example, if S1 = ‘abc’ and S2 = ‘xcd’, then characters {a, x} are equivalent, and characters {b, c, d} are equivalent, the task is to find and print the lexicographically smallest string that you can obtain from S3 by changing its characters to some other equivalent character obtained from S1 and S2. In other words, you need to replace the characters in S3 with their…

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A rated-R biographical drama may sound like a hard sell in terms of generating box office dollars but Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer may just have the cure to something that has been plaguing this year’s biggest flops: absolutely “zero” use of computer-generated imagery. That’s right, Nolan has confirmed that he not only recreated the nuclear explosion seen in the movie with practical visual effects but he is now claiming there isn’t a single CGI shot in the entire movie, according to Collider. It’s a statistic that is…

A University of Colorado Boulder alum created what he says is the world’s first-ever 100% synthetic, biodegradable tennis string through his Boulder-based company Velociti. Ryan Burbary, who graduated from CU Boulder in 2022, came out with the biodegradable string at the end of last year. The International Alliance of Racquet Technicians also noted Velociti as the first to come out with this type of string. “For synthetic strings, which are made of synthetic polymers, we’re the first,” Burbary said. “Nobody else has been…

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Improve Article Save Article Like Article Improve Article Save Article Like Article Given an input string that contains lowercase alphabets and the ‘?’ symbol, the task is to find the minimum and maximum possible difference by replacing ‘?’ and comparing s with s.Examples: Input: s = “a?b??c”Output: 1 3Explanation: We split the input string in two equal parts s1 and s2. s1 = “a?b” and s2 = “??c”For minimum difference: we take s1 as “aab” and s2 as “aac”. s1==s2, s1==s2 and s1!=s2 .So, the minimum difference here is…

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