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// 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;
}
};