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Strange Printer II

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Problem Statement

There is a strange printer with the following two special requirements:

On each turn, the printer will print a solid rectangular pattern of a single color on the grid. This will cover up the existing colors in the rectangle.

Once the printer has used a color for the above operation, the same color cannot be used again .

You are given a m x n matrix targetGrid , where targetGrid[row][col] is the color in the position (row, col) of the grid.

Return true if it is possible to print the matrix targetGrid , otherwise, return false .

Examples

Example 1
Input: targetGrid = [[1,1,1,1],[1,2,2,1],[1,2,2,1],[1,1,1,1]]
Output: true
Example 2
Input: targetGrid = [[1,1,1,1],[1,1,3,3],[1,1,3,4],[5,5,1,4]]
Output: true
Example 3
Input: targetGrid = [[1,2,1],[2,1,2],[1,2,1]]
Output: false
It is impossible to form targetGrid because it is not allowed to print the same color in different turns.

Constraints

m == targetGrid.length
n == targetGrid[i].length
1 <= m, n <= 60
1 <= targetGrid[row][col] <= 60
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ModuleDSA
CategoryArray
Sub-topicGraph Theory
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