String Chains

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"You are given an array of words representing a dictionary. A string chain is formed by taking a word and removing one character at a time, with each resulting word also being present in the dictionary. Determine the longest string chain achievable for the given dictionary. ### Example * Input: n = 4, words = ['a', 'and', 'an', 'bear'] * Output: 3 * Explanation: 'and' can be reduced to 'an' (length 2) and then to 'a' (length 3). 'an' can be reduced to 'a' (length 2). 'a' cannot be reduced further (length 1). 'bear' cannot be reduced to form a chain (length 1). The longest string chain has a length of 3. ### Function Description Complete the function longestChain in the editor with the following parameter(s): - string words[n]: the strings to test Returns: - int: the length of the longest string chain ### Constraints * 1 ≤ n ≤ 50000 * 1 ≤ length of words[i] ≤ 60, where 0 ≤ i < n * Each words[i] is composed of lowercase letters in the range ascii[a-z] ### Sample Input 0 * STDIN * Function * 6 * words[] size n = 6 * arr = ['a', 'b', 'ba', 'bca', 'bda', 'bdca'] ### Sample Output 0 * 4 ### Explanation 0 * Since 'a' and 'b' are single-character words, they cannot be reduced. That would result in the empty string, so the length for both of these string chains is 1. * The word 'ba' can create two different string chains each with a length of 2: ('ba' → 'a' and 'ba' → 'b'). This means the current longest string chain is 2. * The word 'bca' can create two different string chains of length 3: ('bca' → 'ba' → 'a' and 'bca' → 'bca' → 'b'). This means the current longest string chain is now 3. * The word 'bda' can create two different string chains of length 3: ('bda' → 'ba' → 'a' and 'bda' → 'ba' → 'b'). At this point, the current longest string chain is still 3. * The word 'bdca' can create four different string chains of length 4: ('bdca' → 'bda' → 'ba' → 'a', 'bdca' → 'bda' → 'ba' → 'b', 'bdca' → 'bca' → 'ba' → 'a', and 'bdca' → 'bca' → 'ba' → 'b'). The current longest string chain is now 4. The longest string chain is 4."