Rotting Oranges
Problem Grid cells are empty (0), fresh orange (1), or rotten orange (2). Every minute, rotten oranges rot 4-directionally adjacent fresh ones. Return the minutes until no fresh orange remains, or -1 if some can never rot.
Input / Output
- Input: int grid m x n. Output: minutes or -1.
Constraints
- m, n <= 10; but the technique (multi-source BFS) must be articulated for large grids; O(m*n).
Example
- [[2,1,1],[1,1,0],[0,1,1]] → 4; [[2,1,1],[0,1,1],[1,0,1]] → -1 (bottom-left orange unreachable).
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