LeetCode 711, Hard. Topics: Hash Table, Depth-First Search, Breadth-First Search, Union Find. 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 m x n binary matrix grid. An island is a group of 1’s (representing land) connected 4-directionally (horizontal or vertical.) You may assume all four edges of the grid are surrounded by water.
An island is considered to be the same as another if they have the same shape, or have the same shape after rotation (90, 180, or 270 degrees only) or reflection (left/right direction or up/down direction).
Return the number of distinct islands.
Examples
Constraints
- m == grid.length
- n == grid[i].length
- 1 <= m, n <= 50
- 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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