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You are given two strings $A$ and $B$ of length $N$ consisting of lowercase English letters. Your objective is to make both the strings equal. You can apply one of the following $2$ operations at each index $i$: - Convert char $A_i$ to $B_i$ by doing right cyclic shift of character $A_i$. This **increases** your score by amount equal to cyclic shifts done. - Convert char $B_i$ to $A_i$ by doing r

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