feat: add longest palindromic substring algorithm #3015
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Description of Change
This PR adds a comprehensive implementation of the Longest Palindromic Substring algorithm to the dynamic programming section.
The longest palindromic substring problem finds the contiguous substring of maximum length in a given string that is also a palindrome. This is different from the existing longest palindromic subsequence implementation, where characters don't need to be contiguous.
Key Features:
Example:
"bananas"
→ Output:"anana"
(length 5)"racecar"
→ Output:"racecar"
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Notes: Adds longest palindromic substring algorithm with DP and space-optimized implementations, 8 passing tests, and complete Doxygen documentation. Updates DIRECTORY.md accordingly.