374 Guess Number Higher or Lower

1 题目

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 :

Input: n = 10, pick = 6
Output: 6

2 尝试解

2.1 分析

猜数字，在给定范围猜数字。二分法应用。题目描述的不是很清楚，My number指的是要要猜的答案。

2.2 代码

class Solution {
public:
    int guessNumber(int n) {
        long low = 1;
        long high = n;
        long mid = (low+high)/2;
        while(guess(mid)!= 0 && low < high){
            if(guess(mid)==1) low = mid+1;
            else high = mid;
            mid = (high + low)/2;
        }
        return mid;
    }
};

3 标准解

int guessNumber(int n) {
        int maxNumber = n, minNumber = 1;
        while (true) {
            int meanNumber = (maxNumber - minNumber) / 2 + minNumber;
            // Do NOT use (maxNumber+minNumber)/2 in case of over flow
            int res = guess(meanNumber);
            if (res == 0) { 
                return meanNumber;
            } else if (res == 1) {
                minNumber = meanNumber + 1;
            } else {
                maxNumber = meanNumber - 1;
            }
        }
    }