LeetCode 827, Hard. Topics: Array, Depth-First Search, Breadth-First Search, Union-Find, Matrix. View on LeetCode.
Generate this problem as a practice environment: tested reference solution, 12 parametrized pytest cases, and a playground notebook:
Problem
You are given an n x n binary matrix grid. You are allowed to change at most one 0 to be 1.
Return the size of the largest island in grid after applying this operation.
An island is a 4-directionally connected group of 1s.
Examples
Constraints
- n == grid.length
- n == grid[i].length
- 1 <= n <= 500
- grid[i][j] is either 0 or 1.
Solution
Reference implementation from solution.py on GitHub, full suite in test_solution.py:
Complexity
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