L3：04 - Balanced Binary Tree

https://oj.leetcode.com/problems/balanced-binary-tree/

Given a binary tree, determine if it is height-balanced. For this problem, a height-balanced binary tree is defined as a binary tree in which the depth of the two subtrees of every node never differ by more than 1.

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public class Solution {
    public boolean isBalanced(TreeNode root) {
        return maxDepth(root) != -1;
    }

    private int maxDepth(TreeNode root) {
        if (root == null) {
            return 0;
        }

        int left = maxDepth(root.left);
        int right = maxDepth(root.right);
        if (left == -1 || right == -1 || Math.abs(left-right) > 1) {
            return -1;
        }
        return Math.max(left, right) + 1;
    }
}