Code RoomN-queens placement count
HardPrep Room Coding #410

N-queens placement count

CodingAlgorithms & data structuresSenior–Staff~25 min

Return the number of distinct ways to place n non-attacking queens on an n x n chessboard (no two share a row, column, or diagonal). 1 <= n <= 9.

Implement
n_queens_count(n: int) → int
Examples
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What a strong answer looks like

State your approach and its time/space complexity out loud before you optimize. Handle the edge cases (empty input, duplicates, overflow), and say why you chose this over the brute force. Green tests are the floor, not the grade.

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