Abhishek Chaudhary
Posted on June 11, 2022
Given the root
of a binary tree, return the sum of every tree node's tilt.
The tilt of a tree node is the absolute difference between the sum of all left subtree node values and all right subtree node values. If a node does not have a left child, then the sum of the left subtree node values is treated as 0
. The rule is similar if the node does not have a right child.
Example 1:
Input: root = [1,2,3]
Output: 1
Explanation:
Tilt of node 2 : |0-0| = 0 (no children)
Tilt of node 3 : |0-0| = 0 (no children)
Tilt of node 1 : |2-3| = 1 (left subtree is just left child, so sum is 2; right subtree is just right child, so sum is 3)
Sum of every tilt : 0 + 0 + 1 = 1
Example 2:
Input: root = [4,2,9,3,5,null,7]
Output: 15
Explanation:
Tilt of node 3 : |0-0| = 0 (no children)
Tilt of node 5 : |0-0| = 0 (no children)
Tilt of node 7 : |0-0| = 0 (no children)
Tilt of node 2 : |3-5| = 2 (left subtree is just left child, so sum is 3; right subtree is just right child, so sum is 5)
Tilt of node 9 : |0-7| = 7 (no left child, so sum is 0; right subtree is just right child, so sum is 7)
Tilt of node 4 : |(3+5+2)-(9+7)| = |10-16| = 6 (left subtree values are 3, 5, and 2, which sums to 10; right subtree values are 9 and 7, which sums to 16)
Sum of every tilt : 0 + 0 + 0 + 2 + 7 + 6 = 15
Example 3:
Input: root = [21,7,14,1,1,2,2,3,3]
Output: 9
Constraints:
- The number of nodes in the tree is in the range
[0, 104]
. -
-1000 <= Node.val <= 1000
SOLUTION:
# Definition for a binary tree node.
# class TreeNode:
# def __init__(self, val=0, left=None, right=None):
# self.val = val
# self.left = left
# self.right = right
class Solution:
def sumOfTree(self, root):
if root:
return root.val + self.sumOfTree(root.left) + self.sumOfTree(root.right)
return 0
def findTilt(self, root: Optional[TreeNode]) -> int:
if root:
l = self.sumOfTree(root.left)
r = self.sumOfTree(root.right)
return abs(l - r) + self.findTilt(root.left) + self.findTilt(root.right)
else:
return 0
Posted on June 11, 2022
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