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Island Discovery
You are given a grid representing a map of islands (1) and water (0). You need to count the number of separate islands in the grid. An island is defined as a group of adjacent 1's connected vertically or horizontally. The task is to identify how many islands are present.
Input:
- The first line contains two integers, R (rows) and C (columns) of the grid.
- The next R lines contain C integers (0 or 1).
Output:
- An integer representing the number of separate islands found in the grid.
Example:
Input:
4 5
1 1 0 0 0
0 1 0 1 1
0 0 0 1 0
1 0 0 0 1
Output:
4
Key concepts
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