Problem 42797. Find the path through the cell

Created by Jean-Marie Sainthillier

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James on 8 Apr 2016

How about adding a test suite where some of the cell entries are 2-D?

Jean-Marie Sainthillier on 11 Apr 2016

Most of the solutions will not be affected by this update.

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Maher HAMDI on 8 Apr 2016

Test 7,10 and 11 are fake, you have to correct these problem

Jean-Marie Sainthillier on 8 Apr 2016

In Test 7 : 1->2->4->5->6->40->41->42. So a path exists to go through the structure, even if we don't have a global increase in the cell.

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Jean-Marie Sainthillier on 8 Apr 2016

At the beginning this problem was just a test to practice recursive algorithms. I am fed up with always factorial and fibonacci examples. Maybe some others problems will follow.

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