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Solution: Word Ladder

Explore how to apply breadth-first search to solve the Word Ladder problem by finding the shortest transformation sequence between a source and destination word. Understand how to efficiently traverse through words that differ by only one character while managing time and space complexity effectively.

Statement

Given two words, src and dest, and a list, words, return the number of words in the shortest transformation sequence from src to dest. If no such sequence could be formed, return 00.

A transformation sequence is a sequence of words ( ...