LeetCode 1102, Medium. Topics: Array, Binary Search, Depth-First Search, Breadth-First Search, Union Find, Heap (Priority Queue), Matrix. View on LeetCode.
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Problem
Given an m x n integer matrix grid, return the maximum score of a path starting at (0, 0) and ending at (m - 1, n - 1) moving in the 4 cardinal directions.
The score of a path is the minimum value in that path.
- For example, the score of the path
8 → 4 → 5 → 9 is 4.
Examples
Constraints
- m == grid.length
- n == grid[i].length
- 1 <= m, n <= 100
- 0 <= grid[i][j] <= 10^9
Solution
Reference implementation from solution.py on GitHub, full suite in test_solution.py:
Complexity
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