input: Write a function to determine the number of common substrings between two given strings. If the given strings are empty then return 0.
  def num_common_substrings(s1, s2):
      count = 0
      for i in range(len(s1)):
          for j in range(len(s2)):
              if s1[i] == s2[j]:
                  count += 1
      return count
  assert num_common_substrings("abcd", "bae")==2
  assert num_common_substrings("hello", "world")==1
  assert num_common_substrings("abc", "def")==0
  assert num_common_substrings("", "")==0
  assert num_common_substrings("a", "a")==1
output: def num_common_substrings(s1, s2):
      count = 0
      for i in range(len(s1)):
          for j in range(len(s2)):
              k = 0
              while i + k < len(s1) and j + k < len(s2) and s1[i + k] == s2[j + k]:
                  k += 1
                  count += 1
      return count