Diameter of Binary Tree

IF
AlgoAxiomStaff Engineers
JSTS
Easy20 mins

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

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

The length of a path is measured by the number of edges between nodes.

Examples

Example 1:

12345

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

Output: 3

Explanation: The longest path is [4, 2, 1, 3] or [5, 2, 1, 3], which has length 3.

Example 2:

12

Input: root = [1, 2]

Output: 1

Constraints

  • The number of nodes in the tree is in the range [1, 10⁴]
  • -100 <= Node.val <= 100
Source: Tree Depth-First Search pattern — AlgoAxiom
JavaScript
Test Case 1
root = [1, 2, 3]
Test Case 2
root = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
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