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You are given two strings s and t consisting of only lowercase English letters.

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Return the minimum number of characters that need to be appended to the end of s so that t becomes a subsequence of s.

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A subsequence is a string that can be derived from another string by deleting some or no characters without changing the order of the remaining characters.

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Example 1:

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\nInput: s = "coaching", t = "coding"\nOutput: 4\nExplanation: Append the characters "ding" to the end of s so that s = "coachingding".\nNow, t is a subsequence of s ("coachingding").\nIt can be shown that appending any 3 characters to the end of s will never make t a subsequence.\n
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Example 2:

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\nInput: s = "abcde", t = "a"\nOutput: 0\nExplanation: t is already a subsequence of s ("abcde").\n
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Example 3:

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\nInput: s = "z", t = "abcde"\nOutput: 5\nExplanation: Append the characters "abcde" to the end of s so that s = "zabcde".\nNow, t is a subsequence of s ("zabcde").\nIt can be shown that appending any 4 characters to the end of s will never make t a subsequence.\n
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