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Final — B: The Vault Clock

Challenge on lesson: Final-B: The Vault Clock

CHALLENGE
Difficulty: intermediate+25 XP

**Description:** A vault door shows a 4-digit display (0000..9999). Each second you may press one of two buttons: +1 or -1 on the LAST digit (wrapping: 9+1=0, 0-1=9). Given the current display and the target display, print the minimum number of seconds. **Input:** Line 1: t (1 <= t <= 100000). Next t lines: two 4-digit strings cur and target. **Output:** t lines: the minimum presses for each case. **Example:** 1 / 1234 1230 -> 4 (press -1 four times on the last digit).

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