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Problem: Bus Routes

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Explore how to solve the bus routes problem in graph theory by determining the least number of buses required to travel from a source to a destination station. Understand the problem constraints and implement an efficient solution using pattern-based coding techniques.

Statement

You are given an array, routes, representing bus routes where routes[i] is a bus route that the ithi^{th} bus repeats forever. Every route contains one or more stations. You have also been given the source station, src, and a destination station, dest. Return the minimum number of buses someone must take to travel from src to dest, or return -1 if there is no route.

Constraints:

  • 11 \le routes.length 50\le 50
  • 11 \le routes[i].length 100\le 100
  • 00 \le routes[i][j] <1000< 1000
  • 00 \le src, dest <1000< 1000
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Problem: Bus Routes

Medium
30 min
Explore how to solve the bus routes problem in graph theory by determining the least number of buses required to travel from a source to a destination station. Understand the problem constraints and implement an efficient solution using pattern-based coding techniques.

Statement

You are given an array, routes, representing bus routes where routes[i] is a bus route that the ithi^{th} bus repeats forever. Every route contains one or more stations. You have also been given the source station, src, and a destination station, dest. Return the minimum number of buses someone must take to travel from src to dest, or return -1 if there is no route.

Constraints:

  • 11 \le routes.length 50\le 50
  • 11 \le routes[i].length 100\le 100
  • 00 \le routes[i][j] <1000< 1000
  • 00 \le src, dest <1000< 1000