Problem · Dynamic Programming

Find Longest Chain

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Given a dictionary of many words:

- bac, ac, a, c, bads

For each word, each time you can delete one letter, and the resulting word must still be in the dictionary. The task is to find the longest chain that can be formed.

Examples
01 · Example 1
words = ["bac", "ac", "a", "c", "bads"]
return = 3

The longest chain that can be formed starting with "bac" is "bac" -> "ac" -> "a", which has a length of 3.

Constraints
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public int longestChain(String[] words) {
  // write your code here
}
words["bac", "ac", "a", "c", "bads"]
expected3
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