Problem:
Given an array where elements are sorted in ascending order, convert it to a height balanced BST.
For example,
Given array [9,12,14,17,19,23,50,54,67,72,76]
,
the below BST is one possible solution.
An example of a height-balanced tree. A height-balanced tree is a tree whose subtrees differ in height by no more than one and the subtrees are height-balanced, too.
/**
* Definition for binary tree
* struct TreeNode {
* int val;
* TreeNode *left;
* TreeNode *right;
* TreeNode(int x) : val(x), left(NULL), right(NULL) {}
* };
*/
class Solution {
public:
void buildTree(vector<int> &num, int s, int e, TreeNode* &node)
{
if (s <= e)
{
int mid = (s+e)/2;
node = new TreeNode(num[mid]);
buildTree(num, s, mid-1, node->left);
buildTree(num, mid+1, e, node->right);
}
}
TreeNode *sortedArrayToBST(vector<int> &num) {
// Start typing your C/C++ solution below
// DO NOT write int main() function
TreeNode* root = NULL;
buildTree(num, 0, num.size()-1, root);
return root;
}
};