0742. Closest Leaf in a Binary Tree
https://leetcode.com/problems/closest-leaf-in-a-binary-tree
Description
Given the root
of a binary tree where every node has a unique value and a target integer k
, return the value of the nearest leaf node to the target k
in the tree.
Nearest to a leaf means the least number of edges traveled on the binary tree to reach any leaf of the tree. Also, a node is called a leaf if it has no children.
Example 1:

**Input:** root = [1,3,2], k = 1
**Output:** 2
**Explanation:** Either 2 or 3 is the nearest leaf node to the target of 1.
Example 2:

**Input:** root = [1], k = 1
**Output:** 1
**Explanation:** The nearest leaf node is the root node itself.
Example 3:

**Input:** root = [1,2,3,4,null,null,null,5,null,6], k = 2
**Output:** 3
**Explanation:** The leaf node with value 3 (and not the leaf node with value 6) is nearest to the node with value 2.
Constraints:
The number of nodes in the tree is in the range
[1, 1000]
.1 <= Node.val <= 1000
All the values of the tree are unique.
There exist some node in the tree where
Node.val == k
.
ac
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