Annoying Painting Tool
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Given a target black-and-white grid and a fixed r by c flip rectangle, find the minimum number of flips to reach it, or report impossibility.
- Level
Medium6 of 10
- Topics
- Greedy, Simulation, Implementation, Prefix sum
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Problem
Maybe you wonder what an annoying painting tool is? First of all, the painting tool we speak of supports only black and white. Therefore, a picture consists of a rectangular area of pixels, which are either black or white. Second, there is only one operation to change the colour of pixels.
Select a rectangular area of rows and columns of pixels, which lies completely inside the picture. As a result of the operation, every pixel inside the selected rectangle changes its colour (from black to white, or from white to black).
Initially, all pixels are white. To create a picture, the operation described above can be applied several times. Can you paint a certain picture you have in mind?
Input
The input contains several test cases. Each test case starts with one line containing four integers , , , and (, ). The following lines each describe one row of pixels of the painting you want to create. The -th line consists of characters describing the desired pixel values of the -th row in the finished painting ('0' indicates white, '1' indicates black).
The last test case is followed by a line containing four zeros.
Output
For each test case, print the minimum number of operations needed to create the painting, or if it is impossible.