Invert a binary tree.
4 / 2 7 / / 1 3 6 9
to
4 / 7 2 / / 9 6 3 1
Trivia:
This problem was inspired by this original tweet by Max Howell:
Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (Homebrew), but you can’t invert a binary tree on a whiteboard so fuck off.
Runtime: 0ms
1 /** 2 * Definition for a binary tree node. 3 * struct TreeNode { 4 * int val; 5 * TreeNode *left; 6 * TreeNode *right; 7 * TreeNode(int x) : val(x), left(NULL), right(NULL) {} 8 * }; 9 */ 10 class Solution { 11 public: 12 TreeNode* invertTree(TreeNode* root) { 13 if (!root || (!root->left && !root->right)) return root; 14 15 swap(root->left, root->right); 16 invertTree(root->left); 17 invertTree(root->right); 18 return root; 19 } 20 };