Minimum Depth of Binary Tree

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AlgoAxiomStaff Engineers
JSTS
Easy20 mins

Given a binary tree, find its minimum depth.

The minimum depth is the number of nodes along the shortest path from the root node down to the nearest leaf node.

Note: A leaf is a node with no children.

Examples

Example 1:

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Input: root = [3, 9, 20, null, null, 15, 7]

Output: 2

Explanation: The shortest path is 3 → 9, which has depth 2. Node 9 is a leaf.

Example 2:

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Input: root = [2, null, 3, null, 4, null, 5, null, 6]

Output: 5

Explanation: The only leaf is node 6. The path 2 → 3 → 4 → 5 → 6 has depth 5.

Example 3:

Input: root = []

Output: 0

Constraints

  • The number of nodes in the tree is in the range [0, 10⁵]
  • -1000 <= Node.val <= 1000
Source: Tree Breadth-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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