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Solution: Where Will the Ball Fall

Explore how to determine the outcome of dropping balls through a 2D grid with diagonal paths. Learn to track each ball’s movement row by row, understand conditions that cause the ball to get stuck, and compute the final column where it falls out or returns -1 if blocked. This lesson teaches you an intuitive iterative algorithm to solve ball traversal problems in matrices efficiently, helping you understand matrix operations with practical coding interview implications.

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You have nn balls and a 2D grid of size m×nm \times n ...