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May 11, 2019, 10:15 AM – May 11, 2019, 3:15 PM

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S and P are two strings consisting of lowercase letters of the English alphabet, with lengths N and M (N ≤ 10 000, M ≤ 1000, N ≥ M).

In string P, we can replace all the letters in a subsequence of choice with the character '?'. For example, if P is 'ababu', then, by replacing the subsequence 'bab', P becomes 'a???u'. The replaced characters must have consecutive positions. The cost of this operation is the number of modified characters, 3 in the example.

The number of matches of the modified P string in string S is the number of positions on which P matches in S. P matches in S on some position i ≤ N – M if any character from P on position 0 ≤ j < M matches the corresponding letter in S, more precisely, if Pj matches Si+j (using 0-based indexing). A letter matches only itself, while the '?' character matches any letter.

What is the minimum cost of an operation made on P such that P has at least K matches in S?

Input Specification

The first two lines of the input will contain strings S and P. The third line contains the natural number K (K ≤ |S| – |P| + 1).

Output Specification

Print the minimum cost of one operation made on P such that P has at least K appearances in S.

Sample Input 1

  1. abecanacc
  2. abac
  3. 2
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Output for Sample Input 1

  1. 2
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Sample Input 2

  1. ababaiubu
  2. ababu
  3. 3
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Output for Sample Input 2

  1. 4
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Sample Input 3

  1. xxxzzzyyy
  2. babac
  3. 4
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Output for Sample Input 3

  1. 5
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Sample Input 4

  1. abababa
  2. ba
  3. 2
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Output for Sample Input 4

  1. 0
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Explanation

In Sample 1, if we replace 'ba', P becomes 'a??c' with two appearances in S:

abecanacc   ← S
a??c-----   ← first appearance
----a??c-   ← second appearance

In Sample 2, if we replace 'babu' in P, we get 'a????' with three appearances in S:

ababaiubu   ← S
a????----   ← first appearance
--a????--   ← second appearance
----a????   ← third appearance

There is no solution replacing only three characters.

In Sample 3, replace all characters of P, and then there will be 5 appearances in S.

In Sample 4, there is no need to change anything, P appears three times in S.

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