Chef and Candy Sticks

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Chef loved making candy sticks. Each candy stick is made of a sequence of candies of different flavours. Candy stick can be represented by a ternary string. Hence, '01012' would represent a candy stick. Chef defines the beauty of two candy sticks of same length to be the number of characters which are matching in them at corresponding positions. For example: '01201' and '02210' have a beauty of 2

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