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Longest Binary Subsequence Less Than or Equal to K

Medium

You receive a binary string s and a positive integer k .

Produce the length of the longest subsequence of s that makes up a binary number less than or equal to k .

Note:

  • The subsequence can contain leading zeroes .

  • The empty text is considered to be equal to 0 .

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

Example 1

Input: s = "1001010", k = 5

Output: 5

Explanation: The longest subsequence of s that makes up a binary number less than or equal to 5 is "00010", as this number is equal to 2 in decimal.

Note that "00100" and "00101" are also possible, which are equal to 4 and 5 in decimal, respectively.

The length of this subsequence is 5, so 5 is returned.

Example 2

Input: s = "00101001", k = 1

Output: 6

Explanation: "000001" is the longest subsequence of s that makes up a binary number less than or equal to 1, as this number is equal to 1 in decimal.

The length of this subsequence is 6, so 6 is returned.

Constraints

  • 1 <= s.length <= 1000
  • s[i] is either '0' or '1' .
  • 1 <= k <= 10^9

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