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Number of Provinces

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2 min readOct 31, 2021

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There are n cities. Some of them are connected, while some are not. If city a is connected directly with city b, and city b is connected directly with city c, then city a is connected indirectly with city c.

A province is a group of directly or indirectly connected cities and no other cities outside of the group.

You are given an n x n matrix isConnected where isConnected[i][j] = 1 if the ith city and the jth city are directly connected, and isConnected[i][j] = 0 otherwise.

Return the total number of provinces.

Example 1:

Input: isConnected = [[1,1,0],[1,1,0],[0,0,1]]
Output: 2

Example 2:

Input: isConnected = [[1,0,0],[0,1,0],[0,0,1]]
Output: 3

Constraints:

  • 1 <= n <= 200
  • n == isConnected.length
  • n == isConnected[i].length
  • isConnected[i][j] is 1 or 0.
  • isConnected[i][i] == 1
  • isConnected[i][j] == isConnected[j][i]
  • Time complexity: O(n²). The complete matrix of size n²n2 is traversed.
  • Space complexity : O(n)O(n). visited array of size n is used.

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