Question

What would be the next cell in a 5*5 matrix that should be displayed after (1,5) for spiral traversing animation?

Answer 1

Answer :-

A spiral matrix is nxn square matrix formed by placing the numbers 1, 2,3..n².

In this example, N = 5

The spiral matrix for 5 * 5 is as below. If we see numbers are arranged in the form of spiral.

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1     2    3    4    5    

16  17  18   19   6    

15  24  25  20  7

14  23  22   21   8

13  12   11     10  9

So we look '16 17 18 19 6 ' will be displayed in next after (1,5).