// Source : https://leetcode.com/problems/distribute-coins-in-binary-tree/ // Author : Hao Chen // Date : 2019-03-29 /***************************************************************************************************** * * Given the root of a binary tree with N nodes, each node in the tree has node.val coins, and there * are N coins total. * * In one move, we may choose two adjacent nodes and move one coin from one node to another. (The * move may be from parent to child, or from child to parent.) * * Return the number of moves required to make every node have exactly one coin. * * Example 1: * * Input: [3,0,0] * Output: 2 * Explanation: From the root of the tree, we move one coin to its left child, and one coin to its * right child. * * Example 2: * * Input: [0,3,0] * Output: 3 * Explanation: From the left child of the root, we move two coins to the root [taking two moves]. * Then, we move one coin from the root of the tree to the right child. * * Example 3: * * Input: [1,0,2] * Output: 2 * * Example 4: * * Input: [1,0,0,null,3] * Output: 4 * * Note: * * 1<= N <= 100 * 0 <= node.val <= N * ******************************************************************************************************/ /** * Definition for a binary tree node. * struct TreeNode { * int val; * TreeNode *left; * TreeNode *right; * TreeNode(int x) : val(x), left(NULL), right(NULL) {} * }; */ class Solution { public: int distributeCoins(TreeNode* root) { int result = 0; dfs(root, result); return result; } // // if a node has 0 coin, which means one move from its parent. // 1 coin, which means zero move from its parent. // N coins, which means N-1 moves to its parent. // // So, we can simply know, the movement = coins -1. // - negative number means the the coins needs be moved in. // - positive number means the the coins nees be moved out. // // A node needs to consider the movement requests from both its left side and right side. // and need to calculate the coins after left and right movement. // // So, the node coins = my conins - the coins move out + the coins move in. // // Then we can have to code as below. // int dfs(TreeNode* root, int& result) { if (root == NULL) return 0; int left_move = dfs(root->left, result); int right_move = dfs(root->right, result); result += (abs(left_move) + abs(right_move)); // the coin after movement: coins = root->val +left_move + right_move // the movement needs: movement = coins - 1 return root->val + left_move + right_move - 1; } };