Canadian Computing Competition: 2014 Stage 2, Day 1, Problem 1
Troy loves triangles. He especially likes counting triangles. He has an -by- grid consisting of either .
or #
characters. Help him count the number of triangles formed only by #
characters in the grid. Triangles are of the form
#
# ###
#, ###, #####, etc.
More formally, a triangle of height consists of rows for some positive integer . The -th row contains #
characters for . The rows are centred above each other so that they are symmetrical about a vertical line down their middle.
Input Specification
The first line contains the number () representing the size of the grid. The next lines each contain characters as described above.
You can assume that for test cases worth 20% of the marks, .
Output Specification
Output the number of triangles in the grid.
Sample Input
5
.....
.###.
.###.
#####
.....
Output for Sample Input
16
Explanation of Output for Sample Input
There are triangles of height one, triangles of height two, and triangle of height three.
Comments
https://dmoj.ca/problem/dwite12c5p3 ??!??!?!?!
N goes up to 2000 for this version, but 256 for the dwite version
Watch out for edge cases (literally)
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