Sherlock and the Ugly Flower

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Watson gives to Sherlock two strings S1 and S2 consisting of uppercase English alphabets. Next he wants Sherlock to build a flower in the following way: He puts both strings perpendicular to each other in such a way that they overlap at the same character. For example, if he has two strings "ABCDEF" and "XXBCZQ", one possible way to make a flower is: Length of petals in the above flower are

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