Problem 1958. Add a row of zeros on top of a matrix

Created by J-G van der Toorn

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Given a matrix, insert a row of zeros as the top row.

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Last Solution submitted on Jan 25, 2026

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Michael Eldredge on 1 Apr 2019

I literally copied and pasted a part of the test suite into my code to make it work.

This is not a good thing.

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