662. Maximum Width of Binary Tree

Maximum Width of Binary Tree - LeetCode

Given the root of a binary tree, return the maximum width of the given tree. The maximum width of a tree is the maximum width among all levels. The width of one level is defined as the length between the end-nodes (the leftmost and rightmost non-null nodes), where the null nodes between the end-nodes are also counted into the length calculation. It is guaranteed that the answer will in the range of 32-bit signed integer.

Example 1: Input: root = [1,3,2,5,3,null,9] Output: 4 Explanation: The maximum width existing in the third level with the length 4 (5,3,null,9). Example 2: Input: root = [1,3,null,5,3] Output: 2 Explanation: The maximum width existing in the third level with the length 2 (5,3). Example 3: Input: root = [1,3,2,5] Output: 2 Explanation: The maximum width existing in the second level with the length 2 (3,2).

Constraints:

The number of nodes in the tree is in the range [1, 3000].
-100 <= Node.val <= 100

  • code bfs
class Solution:
    def widthOfBinaryTree(self, root: Optional[TreeNode]) -> int:
        q = deque([(root, 0)])
        maxWidth = 0
        while q:
            headCol = q[0][1]
            for _ in range(len(q)):
                curNode, curCol = q.popleft()
                if curNode.left:
                    q.append((curNode.left, 2 * curCol))
                if curNode.right:
                    q.append((curNode.right, 2 * curCol + 1))
            maxWidth = max(maxWidth, curCol - headCol + 1)
            
        return maxWidth
  • code dfs the nodes at the same level do get visited from left to right.
class Solution:
    def widthOfBinaryTree(self, root: TreeNode) -> int:

        # table contains the first col_index for each level
        first_col_index_table = {}
        self.max_width = 0

        def DFS(node, depth, col_index):
            if not node: return
            # if the entry is empty, set the value
            if depth not in first_col_index_table:
                first_col_index_table[depth] = col_index

            self.max_width = max(self.max_width, col_index - first_col_index_table[depth] + 1)

            # Preorder DFS, with the priority on the left child
            DFS(node.left, depth+1, 2*col_index)
            DFS(node.right, depth+1, 2*col_index + 1)

        DFS(root, 0, 0)

        return self.max_width