Class Solution

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    1706 - Where Will the Ball Fall.

    Medium

    You have a 2-D grid of size m x n representing a box, and you have n balls. The box is open on the top and bottom sides.

    Each cell in the box has a diagonal board spanning two corners of the cell that can redirect a ball to the right or to the left.

    • A board that redirects the ball to the right spans the top-left corner to the bottom-right corner and is represented in the grid as 1.

    • A board that redirects the ball to the left spans the top-right corner to the bottom-left corner and is represented in the grid as -1.

    We drop one ball at the top of each column of the box. Each ball can get stuck in the box or fall out of the bottom. A ball gets stuck if it hits a "V" shaped pattern between two boards or if a board redirects the ball into either wall of the box.

    Return an array answer of size n where answer[i] is the column that the ball falls out of at the bottom after dropping the ball from the <code>i<sup>th</sup></code> column at the top, or -1 if the ball gets stuck in the box.

    Example 1:

    Input: grid = [1,1,1,-1,-1,1,1,1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,1,1,1,1,1,1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1]

    Output: 1,-1,-1,-1,-1

    Explanation: This example is shown in the photo.

    Ball b0 is dropped at column 0 and falls out of the box at column 1.

    Ball b1 is dropped at column 1 and will get stuck in the box between column 2 and 3 and row 1.

    Ball b2 is dropped at column 2 and will get stuck on the box between column 2 and 3 and row 0.

    Ball b3 is dropped at column 3 and will get stuck on the box between column 2 and 3 and row 0.

    Ball b4 is dropped at column 4 and will get stuck on the box between column 2 and 3 and row 1.

    Example 2:

    Input: grid = [-1]

    Output: -1

    Explanation: The ball gets stuck against the left wall.

    Example 3:

    Input: grid = [1,1,1,1,1,1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,1,1,1,1,1,1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1]

    Output: 0,1,2,3,4,-1

    Constraints:

    • m == grid.length

    • n == grid[i].length

    • 1 &lt;= m, n &lt;= 100

    • grid[i][j] is 1 or -1.

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      final IntArray findBall(Array<IntArray> grid)
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