559. Maximum Depth of N-ary Tree


Given a n-ary tree, find its maximum depth.

The maximum depth is the number of nodes along the longest path from the root node down to the farthest leaf node.

Nary-Tree input serialization is represented in their level order traversal, each group of children is separated by the null value (See examples).

 

Example 1:

Input: root = [1,null,3,2,4,null,5,6]
Output: 3

Example 2:

Input: root = [1,null,2,3,4,5,null,null,6,7,null,8,null,9,10,null,null,11,null,12,null,13,null,null,14]
Output: 5

 

Constraints:

  • The depth of the n-ary tree is less than or equal to 1000.
  • The total number of nodes is between [0, 10^4].
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/*
// Definition for a Node.
class Node {
public int val;
public List<Node> children;
public Node() {}
public Node(int _val) {
val = _val;
}
public Node(int _val, List<Node> _children) {
val = _val;
children = _children;
}
};
*/
class Solution {
public int maxDepth(Node root) {
return dfs(root);
}
private int dfs(Node node) {
if (node == null) {
return 0;
}
int ans = 0;
for (Node child: node.children) {
ans = Math.max(ans, dfs(child));
}
return 1 + ans;
}
}