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Maximal Square: the 2D dynamic programming pattern on a grid.

The canonical grid DP where each cell depends on three neighbors at once. The signal interviewers want is the min-of-three recurrence, and the reason it has to be min. Here is the answer.

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The canonical grid DP where each cell depends on three neighbors at once. The signal interviewers want is the min-of-three recurrence, and the reason it has to be min. Here is the answer.

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