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

Created by Doug Hull

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Manish Joshi on 18 May 2015

Interesting...

Roche de Guzman on 18 Oct 2016

awesome problem!

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Ramoflaple on 7 Jul 2015

I finally figure out that you use '+length(list)' to index the second column of the list.

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