Coding Skills - Flip with adjacent squares - Google
Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2022 1:21 am
Given a matrix with red and blue squares in it, you can only flip the top left square but there is a chain reaction, which is all the adjacent(up,down, left,right) squares of the same color are flipped accordingly.
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Example 1:
Input:
[0, 0, 1, 0] flip [1, 1, 1, 0] flip [0, 0, 0, 0] flip [1, 1, 1, 1]
[0, 1, 0, 1] -------> [1, 1, 0, 1] -------> [0, 0, 0, 1] -------> [1, 1, 1, 1]
[0, 1, 0, 1] [1, 1, 0, 1] [0, 0, 0, 1] [1, 1, 1, 1]
Output: 3
Example 2:
Input:
[0, 0, 1, 0] flip [1, 1, 1, 0] flip [0, 0, 0, 0]
[0, 0, 0, 1] -------> [1, 1, 1, 1] -------> [0, 0, 0, 0]
[0, 1, 0, 1] [1, 1, 1, 1] [0, 0, 0, 0]
Output: 2
Question: After at least how many flips, you can make all squares one color?