Minimum ASCII Delete Sum for Two Strings
<p>Given two strings <code>s1</code> and&nbsp;<code>s2</code>, return <em>the lowest <strong>ASCII</strong> sum of deleted characters to make two strings equal</em>.</p>

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<p><strong class="example">Example 1:</strong></p>

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<strong>Input:</strong> s1 = &quot;sea&quot;, s2 = &quot;eat&quot;
<strong>Output:</strong> 231
<strong>Explanation:</strong> Deleting &quot;s&quot; from &quot;sea&quot; adds the ASCII value of &quot;s&quot; (115) to the sum.
Deleting &quot;t&quot; from &quot;eat&quot; adds 116 to the sum.
At the end, both strings are equal, and 115 + 116 = 231 is the minimum sum possible to achieve this.
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<p><strong class="example">Example 2:</strong></p>

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<strong>Input:</strong> s1 = &quot;delete&quot;, s2 = &quot;leet&quot;
<strong>Output:</strong> 403
<strong>Explanation:</strong> Deleting &quot;dee&quot; from &quot;delete&quot; to turn the string into &quot;let&quot;,
adds 100[d] + 101[e] + 101[e] to the sum.
Deleting &quot;e&quot; from &quot;leet&quot; adds 101[e] to the sum.
At the end, both strings are equal to &quot;let&quot;, and the answer is 100+101+101+101 = 403.
If instead we turned both strings into &quot;lee&quot; or &quot;eet&quot;, we would get answers of 433 or 417, which are higher.
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<p><strong>Constraints:</strong></p>

<ul>
	<li><code>1 &lt;= s1.length, s2.length &lt;= 1000</code></li>
	<li><code>s1</code> and <code>s2</code> consist of lowercase English letters.</li>
</ul>
String; Dynamic Programming
function minimumDeleteSum(s1: string, s2: string): number {
    const m = s1.length;
    const n = s2.length;
    const f = Array.from({ length: m + 1 }, () => Array(n + 1).fill(0));
    for (let i = 1; i <= m; ++i) {
        f[i][0] = f[i - 1][0] + s1[i - 1].charCodeAt(0);
    }
    for (let j = 1; j <= n; ++j) {
        f[0][j] = f[0][j - 1] + s2[j - 1].charCodeAt(0);
    }
    for (let i = 1; i <= m; ++i) {
        for (let j = 1; j <= n; ++j) {
            if (s1[i - 1] === s2[j - 1]) {
                f[i][j] = f[i - 1][j - 1];
            } else {
                f[i][j] = Math.min(
                    f[i - 1][j] + s1[i - 1].charCodeAt(0),
                    f[i][j - 1] + s2[j - 1].charCodeAt(0),
                );
            }
        }
    }
    return f[m][n];
}
