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).”
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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.
1 /** 2 * Definition for a binary tree node. 3 * struct TreeNode { 4 * int val; 5 * struct TreeNode *left; 6 * struct TreeNode *right; 7 * }; 8 */ 9 struct TreeNode* lowestCommonAncestor(struct TreeNode* root, struct TreeNode* p, struct TreeNode* q) { 10 if(!root && !p && !q) 11 return 0; 12 if(root->val == p->val) 13 return p; 14 if(root->val == q->val) 15 return q; 16 if((root->val > p->val && root->val < q->val)||(root->val < p->val && root->val > q->val)) 17 return root; 18 if(root->val > p->val && root->val > q->val) 19 return lowestCommonAncestor(root->left,p,q); 20 if(root->val < p->val && root->val < q->val) 21 return lowestCommonAncestor(root->right,p,q); 22 return 0; 23 }
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