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Complementary string pairs — count pairs where some permutation of their concatenation is a palindrome
Tests whether you reduce 'some permutation is a palindrome' to a character-parity bitmask per string, then count pairs whose masks are equal or differ by exactly one bit, instead of generating permutations.
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