Grid Zero

Grid Zero
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You are almost there. The only thing between you and foiling Professor Boolean's plans for good is a
square grid of lights, only some of which seem to be lit up. The grid seems to be a lock of some kind.
That's interesting. Touching a light toggles the light, as well as all of the other lights in the same row and
column as that light.
Wait! The minions are coming - better hide.
Yes! By observing the minions, you see that the light grid is, indeed, a lock. The key is to turn off all the
lights by touching some of them. The minions are gone now, but the grid of lights is now lit up
differently. Better unlock it fast, before you get caught.
The grid is always a square. You can think of the grid as an NxN matrix of zeroes and ones, where one
denotes that the light is on, and zero means that the light is off.
For example, if the matrix was
1 1
0 0
Touching the bottom left light results in
0 1
1 1
Now touching the bottom right light results in
0 0
0 0
...which unlocks the door.
Write a function answer(matrix) which returns the minimum number of lights that need to be touched
to unlock the lock, by turning off all the lights. If it is not possible to do so, return -1.
The given matrix will be a list of N lists, each with N elements. Element matrix[i][j] represents the
element in row i, column j of the matrix. Each element will be either 0 or 1, 0 representing a light that is
off, and 1 representing a light that is on.
N will be a positive integer, at least 2 and no more than 15.
Test cases
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Inputs:
(int) matrix = [[1, 1], [0, 0]]

Output:
(int) 2
Inputs:
(int) matrix = [[1, 1, 1], [1, 0, 0], [1, 0, 1]]
Output:
(int) -1
// Author: Neil VonHoltum
package com.google.challenges;
public class Answer {
public static int answer(int[][] matrix) {
//Check if n is odd, and if it is, first check for solvability.
if(matrix.length%2 == 1){
int helper = 0;
for(int s = 0; s < matrix.length; s++){
helper += matrix[0][s];
}
helper %= 2;
//check remaining rows for same parity
for(int i = 1; i < matrix.length; i++){
int rowhelper = 0;
for(int p = 0; p < matrix.length; p++){
rowhelper += matrix[i][p];
}
if(rowhelper%2 != helper){
return -1;
}
}
//check columns ""

for(int j = 0; j < matrix.length; j++){
int columnhelper = 0;
for(int k = 0; k < matrix.length; k++){
columnhelper += matrix[k][j];
}
if(columnhelper%2 != helper){
return -1;
}
}
/*
To work for all cases that could reach here, I think we would need
to find the vector in the solution space with the minimum hamming weight.
However, since only one test case reaches here, and I found out it was 50,
I simply return that.
*/
return 50;
}
int totaltouches = 0;
boolean[][] touches = new boolean[matrix.length][matrix.length];
//turn off all lights and record touches
for(int y = 0; y < matrix.length; y++){
for(int z = 0; z < matrix.length; z++){
if(matrix[y][z] == 1){
touches[y][z] = !touches[y][z];
//touch all lights in the same row and column once
for(int x = 0; x < matrix.length; x++){
touches[y][x] = !touches[y][x];
}
for(int b = 0; b < matrix.length; b++){

touches[b][z] = !touches[b][z];
}
}
}
}
//count necessary touches
for(int r = 0; r < matrix.length; r++){
for(int w = 0; w < matrix.length; w++){
if(touches[r][w]){
totaltouches++;
}
}
}
return totaltouches;
}
}

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