LeetCode_Lowest Common Ancestor of a Binary Search Tree (Binary Tree)

Lowest Common Ancestor of a Binary Search Tree

一、题目描述

二、思路及代码

二叉搜索树有个性质：左子树的值都比根节点小，右子树的值比根节点大。那么我们的思路就是递归比较；
如果输入的两个节点的值比当前节点小，说明是在当前根节点的左子树中；反之则在右子树中。如果当前根节点比一个大，比一个小，那么第一个出现的这样的节点就是最近的父亲节点了。

/**
 * Definition for a binary tree node.
 * public class TreeNode {
 *     int val;
 *     TreeNode left;
 *     TreeNode right;
 *     TreeNode(int x) { val = x; }
 * }
 */
public class Solution {
    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;
        }
    }
}

Lowest Common Ancestor of a Binary Tree

一、题目描述

二、思路及代码

如果是普通的二叉树，没有了二叉搜索树的特性。就要遍历；于是我们用到DFS遍历树

/**
 * Definition for a binary tree node.
 * public class TreeNode {
 *     int val;
 *     TreeNode left;
 *     TreeNode right;
 *     TreeNode(int x) { val = x; }
 * }
 */
public class Solution {
    public TreeNode lowestCommonAncestor(TreeNode root, TreeNode p, TreeNode q) {
        if(root == null || root == p || root == q) return root; //找到p或者q节点，或者到最底层的叶子节点时，返回；
        TreeNode left = lowestCommonAncestor(root.left, p, q);
        TreeNode right = lowestCommonAncestor(root.right, p, q);

        if(left != null && right != null) return root; //找到了父节点
        return left != null ? left : right; //所以如果都未找到，返回null
    }
}