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DIY: Edit Distance

Understand how to compute the minimum number of edits needed to transform one string into another. This lesson teaches you how to implement a function that calculates edit distance, an essential concept in computational biology for DNA and protein analysis.

Problem statement

Given two strings, str1 and str2, you have to return the minimum number of edit operations that are required to convert str1 to str2.

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