Given n, generate all structurally unique BST's (binary search trees) that store values 1...n.
For example,
Given n = 3, your program should return all 5 unique BST's shown below.
Given n = 3, your program should return all 5 unique BST's shown below.
1 3 3 2 1
\ / / / \ \
3 2 1 1 3 2
/ / \ \
2 1 2 3
Algorithm:
This problem is solved using recursion. We should know that every number between 1 and n can be a root value. Thus, going from 1 to n, each time get a number i as the root, the numbers smaller than i form the left child tree and the numbers larger than i form the right child tree. Recursively do this.
Code:
This problem is solved using recursion. We should know that every number between 1 and n can be a root value. Thus, going from 1 to n, each time get a number i as the root, the numbers smaller than i form the left child tree and the numbers larger than i form the right child tree. Recursively do this.
Code:
public class Solution {
public List<TreeNode> generateTrees(int n) {
return helper(1, n);
}
public List<TreeNode> helper(int begin, int end) {
List<TreeNode> list = new ArrayList<TreeNode>();
if (begin > end) {
list.add(null);
return list;
}
for (int i=begin; i<=end; i++) {
List<TreeNode> left = helper(begin, i-1);
List<TreeNode> right = helper(i+1, end);
for (int j=0; j<left.size(); j++) {
for (int k=0; k<right.size(); k++) {
TreeNode root = new TreeNode(i);
root.left = left.get(j);
root.right = right.get(k);
list.add(root);
}
}
}
return list;
}
}
NOTE: for one value, there is probably several structurally unique binary trees, like 3 as root in the example
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