Lowest Common Ancestor Of A Binary Search Tree

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Lowest Common Ancestor of a Binary Search Tree

Given a binary search tree (BST), find the lowest common ancestor (LCA) node of two given nodes in the BST.

The LCA is the lowest node in the tree that has both p and q as descendants.

Example 1:

Input: root = [6,2,8,0,4,7,9,null,null,3,5], p = 2, q = 8
Output: 6

Example 2:

Input: root = [6,2,8,0,4,7,9,null,null,3,5], p = 2, q = 4
Output: 2

Constraints:

  • The number of nodes in the tree is in the range [2, 10^5].
  • -10^9 <= Node.val <= 10^9
  • All Node.val are unique.
  • p != q
  • p and q will exist in the BST.