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2546. Apply Bitwise Operations to Make Strings Equal

Problem

You are given two 0-indexed binary strings s and target of the same length n. You can do the following operation on s any number of times:

  • Choose two different indices i and j where 0 <= i, j < n.
  • Simultaneously, replace s[i] with (s[i] OR s[j]) and s[j] with (s[i] XOR s[j]).

For example, if s = "0110", you can choose i = 0 and j = 2, then simultaneously replace s[0] with (s[0] OR s[2] = 0 OR 1 = 1), and s[2] with (s[0] XOR s[2] = 0 XOR 1 = 1), so we will have s = "1110".

Return true if you can make the string s equal to target, or false otherwise.

 

Example 1:

Input: s = "1010", target = "0110"
Output: true
Explanation: We can do the following operations:
- Choose i = 2 and j = 0. We have now s = "0010".
- Choose i = 2 and j = 1. We have now s = "0110".
Since we can make s equal to target, we return true.

Example 2:

Input: s = "11", target = "00"
Output: false
Explanation: It is not possible to make s equal to target with any number of operations.

 

Constraints:

  • n == s.length == target.length
  • 2 <= n <= 105
  • s and target consist of only the digits 0 and 1.