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Medium#221
LeetCode Problem

Maximal Square

Problem Statement

Given an m x n binary matrix filled with 0's and 1's, find the largest square containing only 1's and return its area.

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Examples

# Example 1

Input
matrix = [["1","0","1","0","0"],["1","0","1","1","1"],["1","1","1","1","1"],["1","0","0","1","0"]]
Output
4

# Example 2

Input
matrix = [["0","1"],["1","0"]]
Output
1

# Example 3

Input
matrix = [["0"]]
Output
0

Constraints

m == matrix.length
n == matrix[i].length
1 <= m, n <= 300
matrix[i][j] is '0' or '1'.

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