Grid Unique Paths

A robot is located at the top-left corner of an A x B grid (marked ‘Start’ in the diagram below).

The robot can only move either down or right at any point in time. The robot is trying to reach the bottom-right corner of the grid (marked ‘Finish’ in the diagram below).

How many possible unique paths are there?

Note: A and B will be such that the resulting answer fits in a 32 bit signed integer.

Example :

Input : A = 2, B = 2
Output : 2

2 possible routes : (0, 0) -> (0, 1) -> (1, 1) 
              OR  : (0, 0) -> (1, 0) -> (1, 1)
class Solution {
    public int uniquePaths(int m, int n) {
        int dp[][] = new int[m + 1][n + 1];
        dp[m][n] = 1;
        for (int r = m; r >= 1; r--) {
            for (int c = n; c >= 1; c--) {
                if (r == m && c == n)
                    continue;
                else if (c == n)
                    dp[r][c] = dp[r + 1][c];
                else if (r == m)
                    dp[r][c] = dp[r][c + 1];
                else
                    dp[r][c] = dp[r + 1][c] + dp[r][c + 1];
            }
        }
        return dp[1][1];
    }
}

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