374. Guess Number Higher or Lower

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 will tell you whether the number I picked is higher or lower than your guess.

You call a pre-defined API int guess(int num), which returns 3 possible results:

• -1: The number I picked is lower than your guess (i.e. pick < num).
• 1: The number I picked is higher than your guess (i.e. pick > num).
• 0: The number I picked is equal to your guess (i.e. pick == num).

Return the number that I picked.

 

Example 1:

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

Example 2:

Input: n = 1, pick = 1
Output: 1

Example 3:

Input: n = 2, pick = 1
Output: 1

Example 4:

Input: n = 2, pick = 2
Output: 2

 

Constraints:

• 1 <= n <= 2^31 - 1
• 1 <= pick <= n

 

 

 

思路：

题目是标准的二分题，但是不知道为什么好评和差评的比高达1：4，有点神奇。根据constraints，左边界是1，右边界是n，然后每次调用API来确定是否猜测正确即可。

 

 

 

代码：

/** 
 * Forward declaration of guess API.
 * @param  num   your guess
 * @return          -1 if num is lower than the guess number
 *                  1 if num is higher than the guess number
 *               otherwise return 0
 * int guess(int num);
 */

class Solution {
public:
    int guessNumber(int n) {
        int left=1;
        int right=n;
        while(left+1<right)
        {
            int mid=left+(right-left)/2;
            if(guess(mid)==0)
                return mid;
            else if(guess(mid)==1)
                left=mid;
            else if(guess(mid==-1))
                right=mid;
        }
        if(guess(left)==0)
            return left;
        return right;
    }
};