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Two 100-digit binary sequences are given. In one operation, one may insert (possibly at the beggining or end) or remove one or more identical digits from a sequence. What is the smallest $k{}$ for which we can transform the first sequence into the second one in no more than $k{}$ operations? [i]Proposed by V. Novikov[/i]