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## edit_distance
### Instructions
Create a function call `edit_distance` that calculates the minimum number of changes (insertion, deletions and substitutions) that need to be made to a string `source` to arrive to another `target` string
### Expected Function
```rust
pub fn edit_distance(source: &str, target: &str) -> usize {
}
```
### Notions
For more information and examples https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edit_distance
### Usage
Here is a program to test your function.
```rust
fn main() {
let source = "alignment";
let target = "assignment";
println!(
"It's necessary to make {} change(s) to {}, to get {}",
edit_distance(source, target),
source,
target
);
}
```
And its output
```console
student@ubuntu:~/[[ROOT]]/test$ cargo run
It's necessary to make 2 change(s) to alignment, to get assignment
student@ubuntu:~/[[ROOT]]/test$
```