The lowest common ancestor (LCA) of two nodes U and V in a tree is the deepest node that has both U and V as descendants.
A binary search tree (BST) is recursively defined as a binary tree which has the following properties:
- The left subtree of a node contains only nodes with keys less than the node's key.
- The right subtree of a node contains only nodes with keys greater than or equal to the node's key.
- Both the left and right subtrees must also be binary search trees.
Given any two nodes in a BST, you are supposed to find their LCA.
Input Specification:
Each input file contains one test case. For each case, the first line gives two positive integers: M (≤ 1,000), the number of pairs of nodes to be tested; and N (≤ 10,000), the number of keys in the BST, respectively. In the second line, N distinct integers are given as the preorder traversal sequence of the BST. Then M lines follow, each contains a pair of integer keys U and V. All the keys are in the range of int.
Output Specification:
For each given pair of U and V, print in a line LCA of U and V is A.
if the LCA is found and A
is the key. But if A
is one of U and V, print X is an ancestor of Y.
where X
is A
and Y
is the other node. If U or V is not found in the BST, print in a line ERROR: U is not found.
or ERROR: V is not found.
or ERROR: U and V are not found.
.
Sample Input:
6 8
6 3 1 2 5 4 8 7
2 5
8 7
1 9
12 -3
0 8
99 99
Sample Output:
LCA of 2 and 5 is 3.
8 is an ancestor of 7.
ERROR: 9 is not found.
ERROR: 12 and -3 are not found.
ERROR: 0 is not found.
ERROR: 99 and 99 are not found.
C++:
/*
@Date : 2018-08-04 21:46:12
@Author : 酸饺子 ([email protected])
@Link : https://github.com/SourDumplings
@Version : $Id$
*/
/*
https://pintia.cn/problem-sets/994805342720868352/problems/994805343727501312
*/
#include <iostream>
#include <cstdio>
#include <vector>
#include <algorithm>
#include <set>
using namespace std;
struct BST
{
int key;
BST *left = nullptr, *right = nullptr;
};
const int MAXN = 10005;
int data[MAXN];
int m, n;
set<int> nodes;
BST* build_tree(int b, int e)
{
if (e == b)
{
return nullptr;
}
BST *r = new BST;
r->key = data[b];
nodes.insert(r->key);
if (b + 1 == e)
{
return r;
}
int right = e;
for (int i = b + 1; i < e; ++i)
{
if (data[i] >= r->key)
{
right = i;
break;
}
}
r->left = build_tree(b+1, right);
r->right = build_tree(right, e);
return r;
}
void search_LCA(BST *r, int u, int v)
{
if (r->key == u)
{
printf("%d is an ancestor of %d.\n", u, v);
}
else if (r->key == v)
{
printf("%d is an ancestor of %d.\n", v, u);
}
else
{
if ((r->key < u && r->key > v) || (r->key < v && r->key > u))
{
printf("LCA of %u and %d is %d.\n", u, v, r->key);
}
else if (r->key < v && r->key < u)
{
return search_LCA(r->right, u, v);
}
else
return search_LCA(r->left, u, v);
}
return;
}
int main(int argc, char const *argv[])
{
scanf("%d %d", &m, &n);
for (int i = 0; i < n; ++i)
{
scanf("%d", &data[i]);
}
BST *T = build_tree(0, n);
for (int i = 0; i < m; ++i)
{
int u, v;
scanf("%d %d", &u, &v);
if (nodes.find(u) == nodes.end())
{
if (nodes.find(v) == nodes.end())
{
printf("ERROR: %d and %d are not found.\n", u, v);
}
else
{
printf("ERROR: %d is not found.\n", u);
}
}
else if (nodes.find(v) == nodes.end())
{
printf("ERROR: %d is not found.\n", v);
}
else
{
search_LCA(T, u, v);
}
}
return 0;
}