Wednesday, September 18, 2013

111. Minimum Depth of Binary Tree. (Easy)

Given a binary tree, find its minimum depth.

The minimum depth is the number of nodes along the shortest path from the root node down to the nearest leaf node.

Note: A leaf is a node with no children.

 

Example 1:

Input: root = [3,9,20,null,null,15,7]
Output: 2

Example 2:

Input: root = [2,null,3,null,4,null,5,null,6]
Output: 5

 

Constraints:

  • The number of nodes in the tree is in the range [0, 105].
  • -1000 <= Node.val <= 1000

A:

/**
* Definition for a binary tree node.
* struct TreeNode {
* int val;
* TreeNode *left;
* TreeNode *right;
* TreeNode() : val(0), left(nullptr), right(nullptr) {}
* TreeNode(int x) : val(x), left(nullptr), right(nullptr) {}
* TreeNode(int x, TreeNode *left, TreeNode *right) : val(x), left(left), right(right) {}
* };
*/
class Solution {
public:
int minDepth(TreeNode* root) {
if(!root)
return 0;
if(! root->left && ! root->right){
return 1;
}else if( ! root->left){
return 1+ minDepth(root->right);
}else if( ! root->right){
return 1 + minDepth(root->left);
}
return 1 + min(minDepth(root->left), minDepth(root->right));
}
};


Mistakes:
1:
 注意,这里的depth,不是我们通常所理解的(edge的条数)而是node的数量。
我们设了root==null时, depth =-1. 这样,为了不考虑root.left == null,(或者root.right==null)时的情况。
但是,当root真为空的时候,depth就返回了-1,而不是0了。

2: 注意,题目里,是到nearest left node. 因此,当输入是{1,2}的时候,我们不能考虑

-------------------第二遍-----------------题目理解错误, 要求是nearest leaf node ---------而若一个节点,有左,或者右 child的话,是不能算的。

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