Link: https://leetcode.cn/problems/find-distance-in-a-binary-tree/

Question

difficulty: mid
adj diff: 2

Given the root of a binary tree and two integers p and q, return the distance between the nodes of value p and value q in the tree.

The distance between two nodes is the number of edges on the path from one to the other.



Example 1:

Input: root = [3,5,1,6,2,0,8,null,null,7,4], p = 5, q = 0
Output: 3
Explanation: There are 3 edges between 5 and 0: 5-3-1-0.

Example 2:

Input: root = [3,5,1,6,2,0,8,null,null,7,4], p = 5, q = 7
Output: 2
Explanation: There are 2 edges between 5 and 7: 5-2-7.

Example 3:

Input: root = [3,5,1,6,2,0,8,null,null,7,4], p = 5, q = 5
Output: 0
Explanation: The distance between a node and itself is 0.



Constraints:

    The number of nodes in the tree is in the range [1, 104].
    0 <= Node.val <= 109
    All Node.val are unique.
    p and q are values in the tree.

应该不难。LCA变体。

Code

代码来自于：https://leetcode.cn/problems/find-distance-in-a-binary-tree/solution/bi-ren-he-ren-du-hao-de-jie-ti-by-java08-dusc/

class Solution {
    public int findDistance(TreeNode root, int p, int q) {
        if(p == q){
            return 0;
        }
        // 公共祖先
        TreeNode parent = findCommonParent(root,p,q);
        // 节点到公共祖先的距离
        return getNodeDepth(parent,p) + getNodeDepth(parent,q);
    }

    // 首先寻找公共祖先
    private TreeNode findCommonParent(TreeNode root, int p, int q){
        if(root == null){
            return null;
        }
        if(root.val == p || root.val == q){
            return root;
        }
        TreeNode left = findCommonParent(root.left,p,q);
        TreeNode right = findCommonParent(root.right,p,q);
        if(left != null && right != null){
            return root;
        }
        return left == null ? right : left;
    }

    // 到root节点的距离
    private int getNodeDepth(TreeNode root,int p){
        if(root == null){
            // -1表示当前路径不是p的路径
            return -1;
        }
        if(root.val == p){
            return 0;
        }
        int left = getNodeDepth(root.left,p);
        int right = getNodeDepth(root.right,p);
        int ans = Math.max(left,right);
        // 最大值是-1的话，表示不是p的路径，>= 0则表示找到的p的路径，再加上自己本身的距离
        return ans >= 0 ? ans + 1 : -1;
    }

}

1740. Find Distance in a Binary Tree

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