Minimum Insertion Steps to Make a String Palindrome (Leetcode 1312)

Problem Link: https://leetcode.com/problems/minimum-insertion-steps-to-make-a-string-palindrome/

class Solution:
    def minInsertions(self, s: str) -> int:
        
        n=len(s)
        s1=s
        s2=s[::-1]
        dp=[[0 for i in range(n+1)] for j in range(n+1)]
        for i in range(n+1):
            for j in range(n+1):
                if(i==0 or j==0):
                    dp[i][j]=0
                else:
                    if(s1[i-1]==s2[j-1]):
                        dp[i][j]=1+dp[i-1][j-1]
                    else:
                        dp[i][j]=max(dp[i-1][j],dp[i][j-1])
        return n-dp[n][n] 

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