We can optimize the code using DP...
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 8:24 PM, immanuel kingston <
kingston.imman...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The following is for LCA for 2 nodes in a n-ary tree.
>
> A more tougher problem is to find the LCA for n nodes in the same n-ary
> tree.
>
> Node * findLCA (Node *root, Node * l, Node * r, int n) {
> if (l == null || r == null) return root;
> if (root == null) return null;
> if (isChild(root,l) || isChild(root, r)) {
> return root;
> }
> Node * arr[n];
> int count = 0;
> Node * notNull;
> for (int i = 0 ; i < n ; i ++ ) {
> arr[i] = findLCA(root->children[i], l, r);
> if ( arr[i] != null ) {
> count ++; notNull = arr[i];
> }
> }
> if (count == 0) {
> return null;
> } else if (count == 2) {
> return root;
> } else {
> return notNull;
>
> }
> }
>
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Piyush Sinha <ecstasy.piy...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> WAP to find the LCA in a n-ary tree.
>>
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