Dsa
Trees
Medium
Lowest Common Ancestor in a Binary Tree
Given a binary tree and two values, find the lowest common ancestor (LCA) of the two nodes that have the given values. Read the tree structure from standard input:
- The first line contains an integer, n, the number of nodes in the tree.
- The next n lines list each node's value and the left and right child indices. A child index of -1 indicates no child.
- The last line contains two integers, p and q, the values for which the LCA needs to be found.
Output a single integer representing the value of the LCA.
Example:
Input:
5
3 1 2
1 -1 -1
2 -1 -1
5 -1 -1
4 -1 -1
4 1
Output:
3
Key concepts
binary treelowest common ancestortraversal
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