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DIY: Open Lock

Understand how to break down the open lock problem by calculating the minimum number of turns needed to unlock a four-digit lock. Explore strategies to avoid dead ends and implement an efficient algorithm in Go to solve a real-world inspired challenge.

Problem statement

You have an old lock in front of you with four circular wheels. Each wheel has ten slots: '0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9'. The wheels can rotate freely and wrap around. For example, we can turn '9' to be '0' or '0' to be '9'. Each move consists of ...