I did my part 1 similarly: I wrote the ID to each cell in it’s rectangle, unless the cell wasn’t zero, in which case I wrote -1. At the end, I counted the -1 values.
The second step was a little different. First of all, I added the ID to a set of IDs that were OK. Then I went through each cell of its rectangle. If the cell is zero, then update it to the current row’s ID. If it had a number in it, then that’s the ID of the most recent rectangle to overlap that cell; so remove the found ID and the current ID from the set of good IDs. Then set all the cells in the entire rectangle to its ID. At the end, the set of good IDs has a single element.
It sounds tricky, but it’s literally just a couple of lines of code
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I did my part 1 similarly: I wrote the ID to each cell in it’s rectangle, unless the cell wasn’t zero, in which case I wrote -1. At the end, I counted the -1 values.
The second step was a little different. First of all, I added the ID to a set of IDs that were OK. Then I went through each cell of its rectangle. If the cell is zero, then update it to the current row’s ID. If it had a number in it, then that’s the ID of the most recent rectangle to overlap that cell; so remove the found ID and the current ID from the set of good IDs. Then set all the cells in the entire rectangle to its ID. At the end, the set of good IDs has a single element.
It sounds tricky, but it’s literally just a couple of lines of code