import sys import math import bisect from heapq import heapify, heappop, heappush from collections import deque, defaultdict, Counter from functools import lru_cache from itertools import accumulate, combinations, permutations, product sys.set_int_max_str_digits(10 ** 6) sys.setrecursionlimit(1000000) MOD = 10 ** 9 + 7 MOD99 = 998244353 input = lambda: sys.stdin.readline().strip() NI = lambda: int(input()) NMI = lambda: map(int, input().split()) NLI = lambda: list(NMI()) SI = lambda: input() SMI = lambda: input().split() SLI = lambda: list(SMI()) EI = lambda m: [NLI() for _ in range(m)] def edit_distance(S, T): N = len(S) M = len(T) INF = N + M + 2 dp = [[INF] * (M + 1) for _ in range(N + 1)] for i in range(N + 1): dp[i][-1] = N - i for j in range(M + 1): dp[-1][j] = M - j for i in range(N - 1, -1, -1): s = S[i] for j in range(M - 1, -1, -1): t = T[j] dp[i][j] = min( dp[i + 1][j] + 1, dp[i][j + 1] + 1, dp[i + 1][j + 1] + int(s != t) ) return dp[0][0] def main(): N, M = NMI() print(edit_distance(SI(), SI())) if __name__ == "__main__": main()