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 * http://www.topcoder.com/stat?c=problem_statement&pm=7415

Summary
You are given some resource strings which contain letters and the special substitution command. Each error message in the system is derived starting from the string " " consisting only of the substitution symbol, and then by successively replacing occurrences of  by resource strings. You are to find how many different ways a given error message can be derived. (See link for a more precise definition of how error messages can be built.)

From TopCoder Single Round Match 342.

Example

 * If the resource strings are
 * " and  "
 * "one"
 * Then "one and one and one" can be generated in 2 ways.

Hints

 * The problem defines a special kind of Context Free Grammar.
 * Look at the categories: use dynamic programming!
 * Chomsky Normal Form may also give you an idea of what to do.