This document discusses the longest common subsequence problem and provides an example of how it can be solved using dynamic programming. It begins by defining the problem of finding the longest subsequence that is common to two input sequences. It then shows that this problem exhibits optimal substructure and can be solved recursively. However, a recursive solution is inefficient due to redundant subproblem computations. Instead, it presents an algorithm that uses dynamic programming to compute the length of the longest common subsequence in O(mn) time by filling out a 2D table in a bottom-up manner and returning the value at the last index. It also describes how to construct the actual longest common subsequence by tracing back through the table.