#AT1865. E - Stronger Takahashi
E - Stronger Takahashi
E - Stronger Takahashi
Score : $500$ points
Problem Statement
There is a town divided into a grid of cells with $H$ rows and $W$ columns. The cell at the $i$-th row from the top and $j$-th column from the left is a passable space if $S_{i,j}$ is .
and a block if $S_{i,j}$ is #
.
Takahashi will go from his house to a fish market. His house is in the cell at the top-left corner, and the fish market is in the cell at the bottom-right corner.
Takahashi can move one cell up, down, left, or right to a passable cell. He cannot leave the town. He cannot enter a block, either. However, his physical strength allows him to destroy all blocks in a square region with $2\times 2$ cells of his choice with one punch, making these cells passable.
Find the minimum number of punches needed for Takahashi to reach the fish market.
Constraints
- $2 \leq H,W \leq 500$
- $H$ and $W$ are integers.
- $S_{i,j}$ is
.
or#
. - $S_{1,1}$ and $S_{H,W}$ are
.
.
Input
Input is given from Standard Input in the following format:
Output
Print the answer.
5 5
..#..
#.#.#
##.##
#.#.#
..#..
1
He can reach the fish market by, for example, destroying the blocks in the square region with $2\times 2$ cells marked *
below.
It is not required that all of the $2\times 2$ cells in the region to punch are blocks.
5 7
.......
######.
.......
.######
.......
0
He can reach the fish market without destroying blocks, though he has to go a long way around.
8 8
.#######
########
########
########
########
########
########
#######.
5