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HardPrep Room Coding #1215

Submatrices with target sum

CodingAlgorithms & data structuresSenior–Staff~35 min

Given an m x n integer matrix and an integer `target`, return the number of non-empty submatrices (contiguous rectangular blocks) whose elements sum to exactly `target`. Values may be negative. m, n are up to 100. A brute force over all O(m^2 n^2) rectangles is too slow; collapse one dimension with prefix sums and use the subarray-sum-equals-k hashing trick on the other.

Implement
num_submatrix_sum_target(matrix: list[list[int]], target: int) → int
Examples
in[[[0,1,0],[1,1,1],[0,1,0]],0]out4
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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InputExpectedGot
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