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Feature #3: Power Up the Station

Explore how to solve the problem of powering up four cellular base stations by rotating dials from 0000 to a target state while avoiding dead states. Understand the BFS approach to find the shortest path and handle wrapping digits effectively, improving your skills in problem analysis and algorithm implementation.

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AT&T just acquired a cellular company in a small town that owns four base stations. The company they acquired owned vintage equipment with dials that must be rotated clockwise or counterclockwise by hand to power up the base stations. There’s one dial for each of the base stations. Each dial has numbers from 0 to 9 and does not stop at either extreme; this means you can rotate clockwise at 9 to go back to 0 or ...