20150624 lintcode 总结 Lowest Common Ancestor

Lowest Common Ancestor

http://www.lintcode.com/problem/lowest-common-ancestor

Given the root and two nodes in a Binary Tree. Find the lowest common ancestor(LCA) of the two nodes.

The lowest common ancestor is the node with largest depth which is the ancestor of both nodes.

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Example  For the following binary tree:

  4
 / \
3   7
   / \
  5   6

LCA(3, 5) = 4 LCA(5, 6) = 7LCA(6, 7) = 7

Solution:

/**
 * Definition of TreeNode:
 * public class TreeNode {
 *     public int val;
 *     public TreeNode left, right;
 *     public TreeNode(int val) {
 *         this.val = val;
 *         this.left = this.right = null;
 *     }
 * }
 */

public class Solution {
    /**
     * @param root: The root of the binary search tree.
     * @param A and B: two nodes in a Binary.
     * @return: Return the least common ancestor(LCA) of the two nodes.
     */
	
	public ArrayList<TreeNode> temp_As = new ArrayList<TreeNode>();
	public ArrayList<TreeNode> A_s = new ArrayList<TreeNode>();
	public ArrayList<TreeNode> B_s = new ArrayList<TreeNode>();

	public boolean isContained(TreeNode root, TreeNode A){
	    if(root==null){
	    	return false;
	    }
		if(root==A){
			temp_As.add(root);
			return true;
		}
		if(isContained(root.left, A)||isContained(root.right,A)){
			temp_As.add(root);
			return true;
		}
		return false;
	}	
	
    public TreeNode lowestCommonAncestor(TreeNode root, TreeNode A, TreeNode B) {
        // write your code here
    	isContained(root, A);       
        for(int i = 0; i<temp_As.size(); i++){
        	A_s.add(temp_As.get(temp_As.size()-1-i));
        }
        temp_As.clear();
        
        isContained(root, B);        
        for(int i = 0; i<temp_As.size(); i++){
        	B_s.add(temp_As.get(temp_As.size()-1-i));
        }
        temp_As.clear();
        
        int i = 0;
        for(; i < Math.min(A_s.size(), B_s.size()); i++){
            if(A_s.get(i)!= B_s.get(i)){
                break;
            }
        }
        i= i>0?i-1:0;        
        return A_s.get(i);
        
    }

}