Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach (7th Edition)
Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach (7th Edition)
7th Edition
ISBN: 9780133594140
Author: James Kurose, Keith Ross
Publisher: PEARSON
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You are the chief commander of US Army; you have been deployed in an ongoing war training of defusing the mine. Mines are placed on the ground which can be considered as a gird of size N*M. Each block (i, j) has a mine in it if and only if the summation of the block coordinates is divisible by 2. Your task is to move from the first row to the last row. The mines will not blow if the given rules are followed:

• If you are on even row you can move to any cell that is in the neighborhood

• If you are on odd row, you can only go the odd row that has mine on that and same with the unmined row.

You have to develop a python program to calculate the number of ways to reach row number N starting from row number 1.

Test Cases:

4 8

Output:

10

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