Leetcode 374. Guess Number Higher or Lower (Easy) (cpp)
Tag: Binary Search
Difficulty: Easy
/*
374. Guess Number Higher or Lower (Easy)
We are playing the Guess Game. The game is as follows:
I pick a number from 1 to n. You have to guess which number I picked.
Every time you guess wrong, I'll tell you whether the number is higher or lower.
You call a pre-defined API guess(int num) which returns 3 possible results (-1, 1, or 0):
-1 : My number is lower
1 : My number is higher
0 : Congrats! You got it!
Example:
n = 10, I pick 6.
Return 6.
*/
// Forward declaration of guess API.
// @param num, your guess
// @return -1 if my number is lower, 1 if my number is higher, otherwise return 0
int guess(int num);
class Solution {
public:
int guessNumber(int n) {
int left = 1, right = n;
while (left != right) {
int mid = left / 2 + right / 2;
switch (guess(mid)) {
case 1: left = mid + 1; break;
case -1: right = mid - 1; break;
case 0: return mid;
}
}
return left;
}
};