<p>Given two strings <code>text1</code> and <code>text2</code>, return <em>the length of their longest <strong>common subsequence</strong>. </em>If there is no <strong>common subsequence</strong>, return <code>0</code>.</p>

<p>A <strong>subsequence</strong> of a string is a new string generated from the original string with some characters (can be none) deleted without changing the relative order of the remaining characters.</p>

<ul>
	<li>For example, <code>&quot;ace&quot;</code> is a subsequence of <code>&quot;abcde&quot;</code>.</li>
</ul>

<p>A <strong>common subsequence</strong> of two strings is a subsequence that is common to both strings.</p>

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<p><strong class="example">Example 1:</strong></p>

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<strong>Input:</strong> text1 = &quot;abcde&quot;, text2 = &quot;ace&quot; 
<strong>Output:</strong> 3  
<strong>Explanation:</strong> The longest common subsequence is &quot;ace&quot; and its length is 3.
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<p><strong class="example">Example 2:</strong></p>

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<strong>Input:</strong> text1 = &quot;abc&quot;, text2 = &quot;abc&quot;
<strong>Output:</strong> 3
<strong>Explanation:</strong> The longest common subsequence is &quot;abc&quot; and its length is 3.
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<p><strong class="example">Example 3:</strong></p>

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<strong>Input:</strong> text1 = &quot;abc&quot;, text2 = &quot;def&quot;
<strong>Output:</strong> 0
<strong>Explanation:</strong> There is no such common subsequence, so the result is 0.
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<p><strong>Constraints:</strong></p>

<ul>
	<li><code>1 &lt;= text1.length, text2.length &lt;= 1000</code></li>
	<li><code>text1</code> and <code>text2</code> consist of only lowercase English characters.</li>
</ul>

class Solution:
    def longestCommonSubsequence(self, text1: str, text2: str) -> int:
        memo = [[-1 for _ in text2] for _ in text1]
        return self.helper(text1, text2, 0, 0, memo)

    def helper(self, text1, text2, i, j, memo):
        if i == len(text1) or j == len(text2):
            return 0
        if(memo[i][j] != -1):
            return memo[i][j]

        total = 0
        if text1[i] == text2[j]:
            memo[i][j] = 1 + self.helper(text1, text2, i + 1, j + 1, memo)
            return memo[i][j]

        val1 = val2 = 0
        val1 = self.helper(text1, text2, i + 1, j, memo)
        val2 = self.helper(text1, text2, i, j + 1, memo)

        total += max(val1, val2)
        memo[i][j] = total
        return total
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