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543. Diameter of Binary Tree

Easy

Given the root of a binary tree, return the length of the diameter of the tree.

The diameter of a binary tree is the length of the longest path between any two nodes in a tree. This path may or may not pass through the root.

The length of a path between two nodes is represented by the number of edges between them.

Example 1:

Input: root = [1,2,3,4,5]

Output: 3

Explanation: 3 is the length of the path [4,2,1,3] or [5,2,1,3].

Example 2:

Input: root = [1,2]

Output: 1

Constraints:

Solution

# Definition for a binary tree node.
# class TreeNode
#     attr_accessor :val, :left, :right
#     def initialize(val = 0, left = nil, right = nil)
#         @val = val
#         @left = left
#         @right = right
#     end
# end
# @param {TreeNode} root
# @return {Integer}
def diameter_of_binary_tree(root)
  @diameter = 0
  diameter_of_binary_tree_util(root)
  @diameter
end

private

def diameter_of_binary_tree_util(root)
  return 0 if root.nil?

  left_length = root.left ? 1 + diameter_of_binary_tree_util(root.left) : 0
  right_length = root.right ? 1 + diameter_of_binary_tree_util(root.right) : 0

  @diameter = [left_length + right_length, @diameter].max

  [left_length, right_length].max
end