Dsa
Union Find
Easy
Chefs and Recipes
In a restaurant, chefs can collaborate to cook recipes if they share at least one common ingredient. Given a list of recipes and the ingredients they use, your task is to determine how many distinct groups of chefs can collaborate based on shared ingredients.
Input:
- The first line contains an integer n (1 <= n <= 100), the number of chefs.
- The second line contains an integer m (0 <= m <= n*(n-1)/2), the number of recipes.
- Each of the next m lines contains a recipe defined by a chef ID followed by a list of integers denoting the ingredients used by that chef.
Output:
- Print the number of distinct groups of chefs that can collaborate.
Example:
Input:
3
2
0 1 2
1 2 3
Output:
1
Key concepts
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