662. Maximum Width of Binary Tree
Given a binary tree, write a function to get the maximum width of the given tree. The width of a tree is the maximum width among all levels. The binary tree has the same structure as a full binary tree, but some nodes are null.
The width of one level is defined as the length between the end-nodes (the leftmost and right most non-null nodes in the level, where the
null nodes between the end-nodes are also counted into the length calculation.
Example 1:
Input: 1 / \ 3 2 / \ \ 5 3 9 Output: 4 Explanation: The maximum width existing in the third level with the length 4 (5,3,null,9).
Example 2:
Input: 1 / 3 / \ 5 3 Output: 2 Explanation: The maximum width existing in the third level with the length 2 (5,3).
Example 3:
Input: 1 / \ 3 2 / 5 Output: 2 Explanation: The maximum width existing in the second level with the length 2 (3,2).
Example 4:
Input: 1 / \ 3 2 / \ 5 9 / \ 6 7 Output: 8 Explanation:The maximum width existing in the fourth level with the length 8 (6,null,null,null,null,null,null,7).
Note: Answer will in the range of 32-bit signed integer.
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Intuition
Level order => Standard BFS with Queue, ignore nulls
We need to track position of each node
left pos = 2 * node pos
right pos = 2 * node pos + 1
At each level , width = last - first + 1
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populating-next-right-pointers
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Time - O(n)
Space - O(n)
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Level order => Standard BFS with Queue, ignore nulls
We need to track position of each node
left pos = 2 * node pos
right pos = 2 * node pos + 1
At each level , width = last - first + 1
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Related problems
populating-next-right-pointers
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Time - O(n)
Space - O(n)
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