Task 56 Life is Simple

Artyom Tsatinyan 2021-04-24 19:53:10

I don't understand why my solution is wrong Please help me

My input data:

XX---XX  
-X-XXX-  
-----X  
XX-XX-X  
XXX-X-

My answer: 18 12 10 11 12

Expected answer was: 19 18 20 20 26

My steps:

XX---XX  
-X-XXX-  
-----X-  
XX-XX-X  
XXX-X--  

XXX--XX  
XXX----  
XX----X  
X--XX--  
X-X-XX-  

X-X----  
-----XX  
---X---  
X-XXX--  
-X--XX-  

-------  
-------  
--XX-X-  
-XX--X-  
-XX-XX-  

-------  
-------  
-XXXX--  
-----XX  
-XXXXX-  

18 12 10 11 12

Artyom Tsatinyan 2021-04-24 20:11:45

I realized my mistake, I need to enlarge my "map"

Artyom Tsatinyan 2021-04-24 20:15:49

I removed my code so that other participants would be motivated to solve the problem themselves

Rodion (admin) 2021-04-27 07:48:43

Artem, Hi!

Glad to see you figured it out! Verily, this problem is less or more straightforward and field edges are the most common question about it so far.

Perhaps we should introduce some, hm, hints shown after several unsuccessful submissions :)

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