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This puzzle can be solved using the following concepts. Practice using these concepts and improve your skills.

Statement

 Goal

You must solve the Mosaic puzzle, also known as Fill-In.

You are given a grid of squares, some of which contain numbers. Those numbers indicate how many of the immediately surrounding squares (including the cell with the number itself) are filled-in. Every square must be marked as filled-in or empty, and there is exactly one solution for each puzzle.

Logic alone should be sufficient to solve the puzzle, but you can also explore possibilities and backtrack from contradictions.

Note: the grid does not wrap, so whereas inner cells have 9 surrounding cells, edge cells only have 6, and corner cells only have 4.
Input
Line 1: Integer N, representing the width and height of the grid.
Next N lines: N characters representing the grid; each character is either a single-digit number or . otherwise.
Output
N lines of N length strings containing .'s to indicate empty cells and #'s to indicate filled cells.
Constraints
3 ≤ N ≤ 25
Example
Input
3
4..
.7.
..4
Output
##.
###
.##

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