235. Lowest Common Ancestor of a Binary Search Tree

Given a binary search tree (BST), find the lowest common ancestor (LCA) of two given nodes in the BST.

According to the definition of LCA on Wikipedia: “The lowest common ancestor is defined between two nodes v and w as the lowest node in T that has both v and w as descendants (where we allow a node to be a descendant of itself).”

        _______6______
       /              \
    ___2__          ___8__
   /      \        /      \
   0      _4       7       9
         /  \
         3   5

For example, the lowest common ancestor (LCA) of nodes 2 and 8 is 6. Another example is LCA of nodes 2 and 4 is 2, since a node can be a descendant of itself according to the LCA definition.

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这题作为２３６的先头兵，好简单。就是判断现在的根和p，q值的大小，根据二查查找树的特点，就知道p,q应该在根的哪个子树。

/**
 * Definition for a binary tree node.
 * public class TreeNode {
 *     int val;
 *     TreeNode left;
 *     TreeNode right;
 *     TreeNode(int x) { val = x; }
 * }
 */
public class Solution {
    public TreeNode lowestCommonAncestor(TreeNode root, TreeNode p, TreeNode q) {
        TreeNode cur = root;
        if (root.val <= Math.max(p.val, q.val) && root.val >= Math.min(p.val, q.val)) {
            return root;
        } else if (root.val >= Math.max(p.val, q.val)) {
            return lowestCommonAncestor(root.left, p, q);
        } else {
            return lowestCommonAncestor(root.right, p, q);
        }
    }
}