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Subject Bitmask dpLevel Senior–Staff~35 minCommon in Algorithms & data structures interviewsIndustries Software development

Question

Given the adjacency matrix 'adj' of a directed graph on n nodes (adj[u][v] == 1 means there is an edge u -> v), count the number of distinct Hamiltonian paths that start at node 0 and visit every node exactly once. Return the count. 1 <= n <= 14. A single node trivially has one path.

Implement
hamiltonian_path_count(adj: list[list[int]]) → int
Examples
in[[[0,1,1],[1,0,1],[1,1,0]]]out2
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