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How would you write a function that calculates the number of mines adjacent to each cell in a minesweeper board?

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Flexport

Roblox

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Niantic

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AT&T

How would you write a function that calculates the number of mines adjacent to each cell in a minesweeper board?
Can you devise a method to transform a character array from a minesweeper grid into an integer array of adjacent mine counts?
What's your strategy for generating an array that shows the count of mines surrounding each spot on a minesweeper map?
How do you plan to convert a minesweeper's array of mines into an array reflecting the count of neighboring mines?
What would be your approach to count the adjacent mines for each cell in a minesweeper board represented by a character array?
Could you demonstrate how to process a minesweeper board array and output the mine counts for each cell?
How can you map a character array indicating mines to an integer array that counts adjacent mines in minesweeper?
What logic would you use to construct an array showing the number of surrounding mines on a minesweeper board?
Can you create an algorithm to convert a minesweeper character grid into an array of numbers denoting adjacent mines?
Given an array of characters representing mines on a minesweeper board, return an array of integers representing the number of mines around each cell.

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