actually a greedy approach for this problem exists:
just convert the first row and first column to all zeros
if after this step matrix is not a complete zero matrix then it's impossible
to make it

On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Prims <[email protected]> wrote:

> How do i convert a binary matrix(containing only 0s and 1s) to a
> complete zero matrix? Only operations allowed are u can toggle a whole
> row or a whole column. The conversion has to be done in minimum number
> of steps (a step is defined as toggling a whole row or whole column
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