236. Lowest Common Ancestor of a Binary Tree

236. Lowest Common Ancestor of a Binary Tree

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

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 5 and 1 is 3. Another example is LCA of nodes 5 and 4 is 5, since a node can be a descendant of itself according to the LCA definition.

/** * Definition for a binary tree node. * public class TreeNode { * int val; * TreeNode left; * TreeNode right; * TreeNode(int x) { val = x; } * } */class Solution { public TreeNode lowestCommonAncestor(TreeNode root, TreeNode p, TreeNode q) { if(root==null) return null; if(root==p || root==q) return root; TreeNode l = lowestCommonAncestor(root.left, p, q); TreeNode r = lowestCommonAncestor(root.right, p, q); if(l!=null&&r!=null){ return root; }else if(l==null&&r==null){ return null; }else{ return l==null?r:l; } }}

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