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Problems > Longest Common Extension

Longest Common Extension

Difficulty: 2000 6000 ms 128 MB

strings binary-search hashing

Answer Q queries: given positions i and j in S, how long is the longest common substring starting simultaneously at i and at j?

Input: the first line has S; the second line has Q; each of the next Q lines has two 1-based positions i and j.

Output: one line per query with the LCE length.

Constraints:

  • 1 ≤ |S| ≤ 105
  • 1 ≤ Q ≤ 105

Sample Tests

Input 1
abcabc
2
1 4
1 2
Output 1
3
0
Input 2
aa
1
1 2
Output 2
1

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