374. Guess Number Higher or Lower

还是按照Similar Problems刷题更好些…

Problem

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.

Solution

不多说了，binary search，赠一个模版 :)

// 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 low = 1, high = n, mid;

        while (low <= high) {
            mid = low + (high-low)/2;

            if (guess(mid) == 0) {
                return mid;
            }
            else if (guess(mid) == 1) {
                low = mid+1;
            }
            else {
                high = mid-1;
            }
        }

        return -1;
    }
};