Solution: Shortest Distance from All Buildings
Understand how to solve the problem of placing a house on empty land to minimize travel distance to all buildings by performing BFS from each building. Learn to efficiently use breadth-first search on grids, maintain distance and reach count grids, and apply tree traversal strategies to optimize solutions for coding interviews.
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Statement
Given an m x n integer grid grid, where each cell contains one of three values:
represents empty land that can be freely traversed, represents a building that cannot be passed through, represents an obstacle that cannot be passed through.
You want to place a house on an empty land cell (
Return the minimum total travel distance for such a placement. If no valid empty land cell can reach all buildings, return
Note: The total travel distance is the sum of the shortest path distances from the chosen empty land cell to every building in the grid.
Constraints:
m == grid.lengthn == grid[i].length...