Guess Number Higher or Lower

[leetcode]Guess Number Higher or Lower

链接：https://leetcode.com/problems/guess-number-higher-or-lower/description/

Question

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

// 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 binarySearch(int a, int b) {
    int mid = a+(b-a)/2;
    if (guess(mid) == 0)
      return mid;
    else if (guess(mid) == -1)
      return binarySearch(a, mid-1);
    else if (guess(mid) == 1)
      return binarySearch(mid+1, b);
  }

  int guessNumber(int n) {
    return binarySearch(1, n);
  }
};

思路：使用二分查找的方法，很简单~