Solve the Rotten Oranges problem
Problem
Rotten Oranges: in a grid of fresh (1), rotten (2), and empty (0) cells, each minute every rotten orange rots its 4-directional fresh neighbours. Return the minutes until no fresh orange remains, or -1 if some fresh orange can never rot.
Input / Output
- Input: an
m x ngrid with values 0 (empty), 1 (fresh), 2 (rotten). - Output: the number of minutes until no fresh orange remains, or -1 if impossible.
Constraints
- 1 ≤ m, n ≤ 10^3.
- Rot spreads only to 4-directional neighbours, one layer per minute.
Example
[[2,1,1],
[1,1,0],
[0,1,1]] -> 4
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