Abhishek Chaudhary
Posted on June 5, 2022
Given head
, the head of a linked list, determine if the linked list has a cycle in it.
There is a cycle in a linked list if there is some node in the list that can be reached again by continuously following the next
pointer. Internally, pos
is used to denote the index of the node that tail's next
pointer is connected to. Note that pos
is not passed as a parameter.
Return true
if there is a cycle in the linked list. Otherwise, return false
.
Example 1:
Input: head = [3,2,0,-4], pos = 1
Output: true
Explanation: There is a cycle in the linked list, where the tail connects to the 1st node (0-indexed).
Example 2:
Input: head = [1,2], pos = 0
Output: true
Explanation: There is a cycle in the linked list, where the tail connects to the 0th node.
Example 3:
Input: head = [1], pos = -1
Output: false
Explanation: There is no cycle in the linked list.
Constraints:
- The number of the nodes in the list is in the range
[0, 104]
. -
-105 <= Node.val <= 105
-
pos
is-1
or a valid index in the linked-list.
Follow up: Can you solve it using O(1)
(i.e. constant) memory?
SOLUTION:
# Definition for singly-linked list.
# class ListNode:
# def __init__(self, x):
# self.val = x
# self.next = None
class Solution:
def hasCycle(self, head: Optional[ListNode]) -> bool:
slow = head
fast = head
while slow and fast and fast.next:
slow = slow.next
fast = fast.next.next
if slow == fast:
return True
return False
Posted on June 5, 2022
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