Given a binary tree, find the lowest common ancestor (LCA) of two given nodes in the tree.
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 5
and 1
is 3
. Another example is LCA of nodes 5
and 4
is 5
, since a node can be a descendant of itself according to the LCA definition.
class Solution {
public:
TreeNode* lowestCommonAncestor(TreeNode* root, TreeNode* p, TreeNode* q) {
if(root==NULL) return NULL;
if(root== p || root==q) {return root;}
else
{
TreeNode* L=lowestCommonAncestor(root->left,p ,q);
TreeNode* R=lowestCommonAncestor(root->right,p ,q);
if(L!=NULL && R!=NULL) return root;
else return L==NULL?R:L;
}
}
};