Search a Row-wise and Column-wise Sorted Matrix
Problem Given a matrix sorted ascending row-wise AND column-wise, search for a target; return its indices (as required by the format) or "Not Found".
Input / Output
- Input: int matrix m x n, target.
- Output: position or "Not Found".
Constraints
- m, n up to 10^3; O(m + n) staircase expected — beats per-row binary search O(m log n) in the worst case and certainly the O(m*n) scan.
Example
- [[1,4,7],[2,5,8],[3,6,9]], target 6 -> (2,1).
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