Problem 487. Find perfect placement of non-rotating dominoes (easier)

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Manish Joshi on 18 May 2015

Interesting...

Roche de Guzman on 18 Oct 2016

awesome problem!

Tran Tran on 24 Jul 2022

Perms() go bruhhh

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