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Solution: Number of Distinct Islands

Explore how to identify and count distinct islands in a binary grid by learning to use depth-first search combined with hash maps. Understand how to normalize island shapes based on relative positions, store these shapes efficiently, and calculate the total number of unique island forms. This lesson provides insight into grid-based algorithms, hash map design, and their time and space complexities.

Statement

Given an m x n binary matrix where 11 represents land and 00 represents water. An island is a group of connected 1s1s ...