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2186. Minimum Number of Steps to Make Two Strings Anagram II

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You are given two strings s and t. In one step, you can append any character to either s or t. Return the minimum number of steps to make s and t anagrams of each other. An anagram of a string is a string that contains the same characters with a different (or the same) ordering. Example 1: Input: s = "leetcode", t = "coats" Output: 7 Explanation: - In 2 steps, we can append the letters in "a

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