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Similar String Groups

Explore how to determine the number of similar string groups in a list where strings differ by at most two character swaps. Understand and apply the union-find algorithm to efficiently group connected strings based on similarity chains.

Statement

Two strings x and y are considered similar if they are either exactly the same or can be made identical by swapping at most two different characters in string x.

We define a similarity group as a set of strings where each string is similar to at least one other string in the group. A string doesn't need to be directly similar to every other string in the group — it just needs to be connected to them through a chain of similarities.

Given a list of strings strs, where each string is an anagram of the others, your task is to determine how many such similarity groups exist in the list.

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