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1. You can do this in O(n^2) without using extra space.
2. Use O(n) extra space and solve it in O(n).

- Anonymous1 May 07, 2012 | Flag Reply
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How ?

- Punit Jain May 07, 2012 | Flag
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If we had parent pointers, we could do a BFS starting at given node, treating parent and child pointers as undirected edges.

- Anonymous May 07, 2012 | Flag Reply
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yeah.. looks like a good solution.

- Punit Jain May 08, 2012 | Flag
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if parent pointer not given , do bfs to find start node and corresponding path from root to start,
then traverese this path backwards, decrementing k
j = k--
k = j # use of j is not required ,its just to explain
and recurse on its children other than child which was previous node on path i.e recurse( child, j-1) # note that j is further decremented

- alok.iiit August 27, 2012 | Flag Reply


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