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Number of islands: count connected regions in a grid

The canonical grid question, and the template for every flood-fill, shortest-path, and region-labeling variant FDE loops throw at you. BFS vs DFS vs union-find: here's which to write and which to merely mention.

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The canonical grid question, and the template for every flood-fill, shortest-path, and region-labeling variant FDE loops throw at you. BFS vs DFS vs union-find: here's which to write and which to merely mention.

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