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Count Negative Numbers in a Sorted Matrix

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You receive a m x n matrix grid which is sorted in non-increasing order both row-wise and column-wise, provide the count of negative numbers in grid.

Example 1

Input: grid = [[4,3,2,-1],[3,2,1,-1],[1,1,-1,-2],[-1,-1,-2,-3]]

Output: 8

Explanation: There are 8 negatives number in the matrix.

Example 2

Input: grid = [[3,2],[1,0]]

Output: 0

Constraints

  • m == grid.length
  • n == grid[i].length
  • 1 <= m, n <= 100
  • -100 <= grid[i][j] <= 100

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