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Subject StringsLevel Entry–Mid~12 minCommon in Algorithms & data structures interviewsIndustries Software development

Question

Given two lowercase strings a and b, return True if they are anagrams of each other (same letters with the same multiplicities) and False otherwise. Solve it using character counts, not by sorting. Both strings contain only lowercase letters and may be empty.

Implement
are_anagrams(a: str, b: str) → bool
Examples
in["listen","silent"]outtrue
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