Guess Number Higher or Lower
description
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.
thinking
这道题是一道典型的猜价格的问题,根据对方说高了还是低了来缩小范围,最简单快速的方法就是折半搜索法
solution
int guess(int num);
class Solution {
public:
int guessNumber(int n)
{
if (guess(n) == 0) return n;
int left = 1, right = n;
while (left < right)
{
int mid = left + (right - left) / 2, t = guess(mid);
if (t == 0) return mid;
else if (t == 1) left = mid;
else right = mid;
}
return left;
}
};