- Difficulty: Medium
- Tags: LeetCode, Medium, Tree, Depth-First Search, Binary Tree, leetcode-1026, O(n), O(h), DFS
Problem
Given the root
of a binary tree, find the maximum value v
for which there exist different nodes a
and b
where v = |a.val - b.val|
and a
is an ancestor of b
.
A node a
is an ancestor of b
if either: any child of a
is equal to b
or any child of a
is an ancestor of b
.
Example 1:
Input: root = [8,3,10,1,6,null,14,null,null,4,7,13] Output: 7 Explanation: We have various ancestor-node differences, some of which are given below : |8 - 3| = 5 |3 - 7| = 4 |8 - 1| = 7 |10 - 13| = 3 Among all possible differences, the maximum value of 7 is obtained by |8 - 1| = 7.
Example 2:
Input: root = [1,null,2,null,0,3] Output: 3
Constraints:
- The number of nodes in the tree is in the range
[2, 5000]
. 0 <= Node.val <= 105