- Difficulty: Medium
- Tags: LeetCode, Medium, Tree, Depth-First Search, Binary Search Tree, Dynamic Programming, Binary Tree, leetcode-333, Recursion, O(n), O(h), 🔒
Problem
Given the root of a binary tree, find the largest subtree, which is also a Binary Search Tree (BST), where the largest means subtree has the largest number of nodes.
A Binary Search Tree (BST) is a tree in which all the nodes follow the below-mentioned properties:
- The left subtree values are less than the value of their parent (root) node's value.
- The right subtree values are greater than the value of their parent (root) node's value.
Note: A subtree must include all of its descendants.
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Example 1:
Input: root = [10,5,15,1,8,null,7] Output: 3 Explanation: The Largest BST Subtree in this case is the highlighted one. The return value is the subtree's size, which is 3.
Example 2:
Input: root = [4,2,7,2,3,5,null,2,null,null,null,null,null,1] Output: 2
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Constraints:
- The number of nodes in the tree is in the range
[0, 104]
. -104 <= Node.val <= 104
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Follow up: Can you figure out ways to solve it with O(n)
time complexity?