Minimum Updates to Make Bitwise OR Equal to Target
You are given three positive integers a, b and target. Consider an operation where you take either a or b and update one of the bits to 1 or to 0.
Return the minimum number of operations required to make a | b = target.
Constraints
1 ≤ a, b, target < 2 ** 31
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Examples
Example 1
Input
- a = 
2 - b = 
4 - target = 
8 
Output
- answer = 
3 
Explanation
  10 = a
 100 = b
1000 = target
We need to first unset a and bs 1 bits to make them zero. Then we can set a directly to 8.
      
      
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