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【LeetCode】235. Lowest Common Ancestor of a Binary Search Tree

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题目:

Given a binary search tree (BST), find the lowest common ancestor (LCA) of two given nodes in the BST.

According to the definition of LCA on Wikipedia: “The lowest common ancestor is defined between two nodes v and w as the lowest node in T that has both v and w as descendants (where we allow a node to be a descendant of itself).”

        _______6______
       /                  ___2__          ___8__
   /      \        /         0      _4       7       9
         /           3   5

For example, the lowest common ancestor (LCA) of nodes 2 and 8 is 6. Another example is LCA of nodes 2 and 4 is 2, since a node can be a descendant of itself according to the LCA definition.

提示:

此题的核心是要利用已知条件中,给定的二叉树是二叉搜索树这一条件。所谓二叉搜索树,指的是一种二叉树,其中,比根节点小的节点都位于根节点的左侧,反之,若比根节点要大,则位于根节点的右侧。可以参考题目中的例子。

递归调用的思路也很简单:

  • 若两个要搜索的节点都比根节点小,则对根节点的左节点进行递归;
  • 若两个要搜索的节点都比根节点打,则对根节点的右节点进行递归;
  • 若一大一小,则返回根节点。

代码:

/**
 * Definition for a binary tree node.
 * struct TreeNode {
 *     int val;
 *     TreeNode *left;
 *     TreeNode *right;
 *     TreeNode(int x) : val(x), left(NULL), right(NULL) {}
 * };
 */
class Solution {
public:
    TreeNode* lowestCommonAncestor(TreeNode* root, TreeNode* p, TreeNode* q) {
        if (p->val < root->val && q->val < root->val)
            return lowestCommonAncestor(root->left, p, q);
        if (p->val > root->val && q->val > root->val)
            return lowestCommonAncestor(root->right, p, q);
        return root;
    }
};

由于此题的测试用例中没有节点为NULL的情况,因此代码中省去了空指针的判断。

 

【LeetCode】235. Lowest Common Ancestor of a Binary Search Tree

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原文地址:http://www.cnblogs.com/jdneo/p/4739680.html

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