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Medium#2661
LeetCode Problem

First Completely Painted Row or Column

Problem Statement

You are given a 0-indexed integer array arr, and an m x n integer matrix mat. arr and mat both contain all the integers in the range [1, m * n]. Go through each index i in arr starting from index 0 and paint the cell in mat containing the integer arr[i]. Return the smallest index i at which either a row or a column will be completely painted in mat.

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Examples

# Example 1

Input
arr = [1,3,4,2], mat = [[1,4],[2,3]]
Output
2

# Example 2

Input
arr = [2,8,7,4,1,3,5,6,9], mat = [[3,2,5],[1,4,6],[8,7,9]]
Output
3

Constraints

m == mat.length
n = mat[i].length
arr.length == m * n
1 <= m, n <= 10^5
1 <= m * n <= 10^5
1 <= arr[i], mat[r][c] <= m * n
All the integers of arr are unique.
All the integers of mat are unique.

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