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  • Introduction
  • Useful Java knowledge
    • Arrays vs Math vs Collections
    • Integer vs int
    • String vs string vs char vs Character
    • StringBuilder vs StringBuffer
    • ArrayList vs Array
    • Stack & Queue
    • HashMap
    • LinkedList
  • Useful Python knowledges
    • Dictionary
    • recursive vs iterative
    • queue 和 stack如何用python实现
    • List, Dictionary, Set 常用的函数
    • Common Mistakes about Python
    • Bit operation
    • sort by second value in Python
    • Initialize list in Python
  • 完全按照九章算法刷的,70道左右
    • I. Binary Search
      • 34.Find First and Last Position of Element in Sorted Array
      • 35. Search Insert Position
      • 74. Search a 2D Matrix
      • 240. Search a 2D Matrix II
      • 278. First Bad Version
      • 162. Find Peak Element
      • 33. Search in Rotated Sorted Array
      • 81. Search in Rotated Sorted Array II
      • 153. Find Minimum in Rotated Sorted Array
      • 154. Find Minimum in Rotated Sorted Array II
    • II. Sorted Array
      • 88. Merge Sorted Array
      • 23. Merge k Sorted Lists
      • 4. Median of Two Sorted Arrays
      • # Recover rotated sorted array
      • 796. Rotate String
      • 26. Remove Duplicates from Sorted Array
      • 80. Remove Duplicates from Sorted Array II
      • 557. Reverse Words in a String III
    • III. Binary Tree
      • 144. Binary Tree Preorder Traversal
      • 94. Binary Tree Inorder Traversal
      • 145. Binary Tree Postorder Traversal
      • 912. Sort an Array
      • 104. Maximum Depth of Binary Tree
      • 110. Balanced Binary Tree
      • 124. Binary Tree Maximum Path Sum
      • 235. Lowest Common Ancestor of a Binary Search Tree
      • 102. Binary Tree Level Order Traversal
      • 107. Binary Tree Level Order Traversal II
      • 103. Binary Tree Zigzag Level Order Traversal
      • 98. Validate Binary Search Tree
      • 701. Insert into a Binary Search Tree
      • 173. Binary Search Tree Iterator
    • IV. Permutations and Subsets
      • 78. Subsets
      • 90. Subsets II
      • 31. Next Permutation
      • 60. Permutation Sequence
      • 51. N-Queens
      • 17. Letter Combinations of a Phone Number
      • 39. Combination Sum
      • 131. Palindrome Partitioning
      • 126. Word Ladder II
      • 127. Word Ladder
    • VI. Linked List
      • 203. Remove Linked List Elements
      • 206. Reverse Linked List
      • 92. Reverse Linked List II
      • 143. Reorder List
      • 148. Sort List
      • 82. Remove Duplicates from Sorted List II
      • 86. Partition List
      • 141. Linked List Cycle
      • 142. Linked List Cycle II
      • 23. Merge k Sorted Lists
      • 138. Copy List with Random Pointer
    • IX. Dynamic Programming
      • 70. Climbing Stairs
      • 120. Triangle
      • 62. Unique Paths
      • 63. Unique Paths II
      • 64. Minimum Path Sum
      • 55. Jump Game
      • 300. Longest Increasing Subsequence
      • 139. Word Break
      • 132. Palindrome Partitioning II
      • 72. Edit Distance
      • 1143. Longest Common Subsequence
      • 97. Interleaving String
      • 115. Distinct Subsequences
  • 开始自己刷,冲刺100道,主要是binarySearch&Tree
    • 981. Time Based Key-Value Store
    • 111. Minimum Depth of Binary Tree
    • 112. Path Sum
    • 113. Path Sum II
    • 100. Same Tree
    • 101. Symmetric Tree
    • 96. Unique Binary Search Trees
    • 108. Convert Sorted Array to Binary Search Tree
    • 226. Invert Binary Tree
    • 95. Unique Binary Search Trees II
    • 50. Pow(x, n)
    • 69. Sqrt(x)
    • 167. Two Sum II - Input array is sorted
    • 29. Divide Two Integers*
    • 349. Intersection of Two Arrays
    • 287. Find the Duplicate Number
    • 222. Count Complete Tree Nodes
    • 350. Intersection of Two Arrays II
    • 257. Binary Tree Paths
    • 404. Sum of Left Leaves
    • 437. Path Sum III
    • 7. Reverse Integer
    • 21. Merge Two Sorted Lists
    • 279. Perfect Squares
    • 199. Binary Tree Right Side View
    • 114. Flatten Binary Tree to Linked List
    • 129. Sum Root to Leaf Numbers
    • 198. House Robber
    • 213. House Robber II
    • 337. House Robber III
    • 236. Lowest Common Ancestor of a Binary Tree
  • 终于刷到100道了,我是分水岭,开始按照网上推荐重点250道题
    • 补充1-20道
      • 3. Longest Substring Without Repeating Characters
      • 5. Longest Palindromic Substring
      • 9. Palindrome Number
      • 11. Container With Most Water
      • 12. Integer to Roman
      • 13. Roman to Integer
      • 15. 3Sum
      • 18. 4Sum
      • 20. Valid Parentheses
      • 22. Generate Parentheses
      • 27. Remove Element
      • 28. Implement strStr()
      • 31. Next Permutation
      • 36. Valid Sudoku
      • 38. Count and Say
      • 40. Combination Sum II
      • 41. First Missing Positive
      • 43. Multiply Strings
      • 48. Rotate Image
      • 49. Group Anagrams
  • 补充21-40道
    • 53. Maximum Subarray
    • 66. Plus One
    • 67. Add Binary
    • 71. Simplify Path
    • 75. Sort Colors
    • 77. Combinations
    • 79. Word Search
    • 91. Decode Ways
    • 116. Populating Next Right Pointers in Each Node
    • 117. Populating Next Right Pointers in Each Node II
    • 121. Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock
    • 122. Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock II
    • 125. Valid Palindrome
    • 133. Clone Graph
    • 134. Gas Station
    • 146. LRU Cache
    • 150. Evaluate Reverse Polish Notation
    • 152. Maximum Product Subarray
    • 155. Min Stack
    • 157. Read N Characters Given Read4
  • 补充41-60道
    • 160. One Edit Distance
    • 163. Missing Ranges
    • 168. Excel Sheet Column Title
    • 169. Majority Element(位运算)
    • 170. Two Sum III - Data structure design
    • 171. Excel Sheet Column Number
    • 175. Combine Two Tables(SQL)
    • 176. Second Highest Salary(SQL)
    • 177. Nth Highest Salary(SQL)
    • 178. Rank Scores(SQL)
    • 180. Consecutive Numbers(SQL)
    • 181. Employees Earning More Than Their Managers(SQL)
    • 182. Duplicate Emails(SQL)
    • 183. Customers Who Never Order(SQL)
    • 184. Department Highest Salary(SQL)
    • 185. Department Top Three Salaries(SQL)
    • 57. Insert Interval
    • 355. Design Twitter
    • 328. Odd Even Linked List(经典)
  • 补充61-80道
    • 378. Kth Smallest Element in a Sorted Matrix
    • 309. Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock with Cooldown
    • 186. Reverse Words in a String II
    • 190. Reverse Bits(bit)
    • 191. Number of 1 Bits(bit)
    • 196. Delete Duplicate Emails(SQL)
    • 197. Rising Temperature(SQL)
    • 200. Number of Islands
    • 201. Bitwise AND of Numbers Range
    • 202. Happy Number
    • 204. Count Primes
    • 205. Isomorphic Strings
    • 208. Implement Trie (Prefix Tree)
    • 211. Design Add and Search Words Data Structure
    • 215. Kth Largest Element in an Array
    • 216. Combination Sum III
    • 217. Contains Duplicate
    • 219. Contains Duplicate II
    • 220. Contains Duplicate III
    • 225. Implement Stack using Queues
  • 补充81-100道
    • 2. Add Two Numbers
    • 19. Remove Nth Node From End of List
    • 227. Basic Calculator II
    • 228. Summary Ranges
    • 231. Power of Two
    • 232. Implement Queue using Stacks
    • 234. Palindrome Linked List
    • 237. Delete Node in a Linked List
    • 242. Valid Anagram
    • 258. Add Digits
    • 263. Ugly Number
    • 268. Missing Number
    • 283. Move Zeroes
    • 290. Word Pattern
    • 303. Range Sum Query - Immutable
    • 26. Power of Three
    • 342. Power of Four
    • 344. Reverse String
    • 655. Print Binary Tree
    • 224. Basic Calculator
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  1. 完全按照九章算法刷的,70道左右
  2. III. Binary Tree

98. Validate Binary Search Tree

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We need a helper function to return each subtree's minimum and maximun values.

Solution 1:

  1. helper function - max and min value in a subtree

  2. isValid function - both of left and right subtrees are valid, left_max < root and right_min > root, then it's valid.

// Some code
class Solution:
    def isValidBST(self, root: Optional[TreeNode]) -> bool:
        res = self.isBST(root)
        return res[2]
        
    def isBST(self, root):   # return a tuple: (minValue, maxValue, isValid)
        # ege case
        if root == None:
            return (float('inf'), float('-inf'), True)
        
        left = self.isBST(root.left)
        right = self.isBST(root.right)
        
        if root.val > left[1] and root.val < right[0] and left[2] and right[2]:
            isValid = True
        else:
            isValid = False
            
        minValue = min(min(left[0], right[0]), root.val)
        maxValue = max(max(left[1], right[1]), root.val)
        
        return (minValue, maxValue, isValid)

final class TreeInfo {
    boolean isBST;
    long maxVal;
    long minVal;
    
    public TreeInfo(boolean isBST, long maxVal, long minVal) {
        this.isBST = isBST;
        this.maxVal = maxVal;
        this.minVal = minVal;
    }
}
class Solution {
    public boolean isValidBST(TreeNode root) {
        TreeInfo res = helper(root);
        return res.isBST;
    }
    
    public TreeInfo helper(TreeNode root) {
        if(root == null) return new TreeInfo(true, Long.MIN_VALUE, Long.MAX_VALUE);
        
        TreeInfo left = helper(root.left);
        TreeInfo right = helper(root.right);
        
        if(!left.isBST || !right.isBST) {
            return new TreeInfo(false, -1, -1);
        }
        
        if((root.val > left.maxVal) && (root.val < right.minVal))
            return new TreeInfo(true, Math.max(right.maxVal, root.val), Math.min(left.minVal, root.val));
        
        return new TreeInfo(false, -1, -1);
    }
}

Solution 2:

Compute inorder binary tree traversal, if whole list is ascending, then it's valid.

class Solution {
    public boolean isValidBST(TreeNode root) {
        Deque<TreeNode> stack = new ArrayDeque<TreeNode>();
        Integer prev = null;
        
        while(!stack.isEmpty() || root != null) {
            while(root != null) {
                stack.push(root);
                root = root.left;
            }
            root = stack.pop();
            if(prev != null && root.val <= prev)
                return false;
            
            prev = root.val;
            root = root.right;
        }
        return true;
    }
}

Solution 3:

# Definition for a binary tree node.
# class TreeNode:
#     def __init__(self, val=0, left=None, right=None):
#         self.val = val
#         self.left = left
#         self.right = right
class Solution:
    def isValidBST(self, root: TreeNode) -> bool:
        return self.isBSTChild(root)
    
    def isBSTChild(self, node, low = float('-inf'), upper = float('inf')):  #  -> list[max, min] 
        if node == None:
            return True
        
        if node.val <= low or node.val >= upper:
            return False
        
        if self.isBSTChild(node.left, low, node.val) == False or self.isBSTChild(node.right, node.val, upper) == False:
            return False
        
        return True
class Solution:
    def isValidBST(self, root):
        """
        :type root: TreeNode
        :rtype: bool
        """
        if not root:
            return True
            
        stack = [(root, float('-inf'), float('inf')), ] 
        while stack:
            root, lower, upper = stack.pop()
            if not root:
                continue
            val = root.val
            if val <= lower or val >= upper:
                return False
            stack.append((root.right, val, upper))
            stack.append((root.left, lower, val))
        return True  

逆向思维,如果parent tree是BST,那么left sub tree的下限是左子树的low,上限是parent node.val. 那么right sub tree的下限是parent node.val,上限是右子树的up. 默认上限是无穷大,下限是无穷小。每个node遍历一遍,时间复杂度和空间度为 O(n)O(n)O(n)