uess 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'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!

总结

这个问题可以用最基本的二分查找来解决，初始我的代码是这样，一直通过不了，提示超时：

/* The guess API is defined in the parent class GuessGame.
   @param num, your guess
   @return -1 if my number is lower, 1 if my number is higher, otherwise return 0
      int guess(int num); */

public class Solution extends GuessGame {
    public int guessNumber(int n) {
        int mid;
        int res;
        int low = 1;
        int high = n;
        while (low <= high) {
            mid = (low + high) / 2;
            res = guess(mid);
            if (res == 0)
                return mid;
            else if (res < 0)
                high = mid - 1;
            else
                low = mid + 1;
        }
        return -1;
    }
}

然而把mid = (low + high) / 2;改成mid = low + (high - low) / 2;就ac，原因是low+high可能会导致溢出…

还有一种解法是三分查找，可以有更快的算法复杂度。