Leetcode 235. Lowest Common Ancestor of a Binary Search Tree

Given a binary search tree (BST), find the lowest common ancestor (LCA) of two given nodes in the BST.

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 2 and 8 is 6. Another example is LCA of nodes 2 and 4 is 2, since a node can be a descendant of itself according to the LCA definition.

递归版本：

class Solution {
public:
    TreeNode* lowestCommonAncestor(TreeNode* root, TreeNode* p, TreeNode* q) {
        if (p -> val < root -> val && q -> val < root -> val)
            return lowestCommonAncestor(root -> left, p, q);
        if (p -> val > root -> val && q -> val > root -> val)
            return lowestCommonAncestor(root -> right, p, q);
        return root;
    }
};

迭代版本：

class Solution { 
public:
    TreeNode* lowestCommonAncestor(TreeNode* root, TreeNode* p, TreeNode* q) {
        TreeNode* cur = root;
        while (true) {
            if (p -> val < cur -> val && q -> val < cur -> val)
                cur = cur -> left;
            else if (p -> val > cur -> val && q -> val > cur -> val)
                cur = cur -> right;
            else return cur; 
        }
    }
};