LintCode 662: Guess Number Higher or Lower

662. Guess Number Higher or Lower

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 will tell you if this number is greater or less than the number you guessed.

You call a pre-defined API guess(int num) which returns 3 possible results (-1, 1, or 0):
-1 means this number is less than the number you guessed

1 means this number is greater than the number you guessed

0 means this number is equal to the number you guessed

Example
Example 1:

Input : n = 10, I pick 4 (but you don’t know)
Output : 4

解法1：Binary Search
代码如下：

// 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:
    /**
     * @param n an integer
     * @return the number you guess
     */
    int guessNumber(int n) {
        int start = 1, end = n;
        while(start + 1 < n) {
            int mid = start + (end - start) / 2;
            if (guess(mid) == -1) {
                end = mid;
            } else if (guess(mid) == 1) {
                start = mid;
            } else {
                return mid;
            }
        }
        if (guess(start) == 0) return start;
        return end;
    }
};