#K79637. Minimum Path Difficulty
Minimum Path Difficulty
Minimum Path Difficulty
You are given an R x C grid of integers. Each cell in the grid represents a difficulty level. Your task is to find a path from the top-left cell (0,0) to the bottom-right cell (R-1,C-1) such that the difficulty of the path is minimized.
The difficulty of a path is defined as the maximum absolute difference between the values of any two consecutive cells along that path. Formally, if the path consists of cells \((i_0,j_0), (i_1,j_1), \dots, (i_k,j_k)\), then the difficulty of the path is given by:
[ D = \max_{0 \leq t < k} \left| grid[i_t][j_t] - grid[i_{t+1}][j_{t+1}] \right| ]
Your goal is to compute the minimum possible value of \(D\) over all possible paths from the start to the finish.
Note: Movements can be made in the four cardinal directions: up, down, left, and right.
inputFormat
The first line of input contains two integers R
and C
(the number of rows and columns of the grid, respectively).
The next R
lines each contain C
space-separated integers representing the grid values.
You can assume that R
and C
are positive and the grid values are integers.
outputFormat
Output a single integer representing the minimum possible maximum absolute difference between adjacent cells along any path from the top-left to the bottom-right of the grid.
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8 4 7
6 1 3
2 9 5
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