问题描述:
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).”
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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.
这里写到了说是BST,所以有特殊性,因为BST的左儿子一定比右儿子大。因此可以遍历树的时候根据节点与p,q节点val的大小关系决定遍历的方向(左边还是右边)。
而Lowest Common Ancestor 这个定义正好也是(node.val>=left.val&&node.val<=right.val)
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代码如下:
public TreeNode lowestCommonAncestor(TreeNode root, TreeNode p, TreeNode q) {
if(root.val>p.val&&root.val>q.val)return lowestCommonAncestor(root.left,p,q);
else if(root.val<p.val&&root.val<q.val)return lowestCommonAncestor(root.right,p,q);
else return root;
}