1650. Lowest Common Ancestor of a Binary Tree III

https://leetcode.com/problems/lowest-common-ancestor-of-a-binary-tree-iii

Description

Given two nodes of a binary tree p and q, return their lowest common ancestor (LCA).

Each node will have a reference to its parent node. The definition for Node is below:

class Node {
    public int val;
    public Node left;
    public Node right;
    public Node parent;
}

According to the definition of LCA on Wikipedia: "The lowest common ancestor of two nodes p and q in a tree T is the lowest node that has both p and q as descendants (where we allow a node to be a descendant of itself)."

Example 1:

**Input:** root = [3,5,1,6,2,0,8,null,null,7,4], p = 5, q = 1
**Output:** 3
**Explanation:** The LCA of nodes 5 and 1 is 3.

Example 2:

**Input:** root = [3,5,1,6,2,0,8,null,null,7,4], p = 5, q = 4
**Output:** 5
**Explanation:** The LCA of nodes 5 and 4 is 5 since a node can be a descendant of itself according to the LCA definition.

Example 3:

**Input:** root = [1,2], p = 1, q = 2
**Output:** 1

Constraints:

  • The number of nodes in the tree is in the range [2, 105].

  • -109 <= Node.val <= 109

  • All Node.val are unique.

  • p != q

  • p and q exist in the tree.

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