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1123. Lowest Common Ancestor of Deepest Leaves

  • The problem involves finding the lowest common ancestor (LCA) of the deepest leaves in a binary tree.
  • Post-order traversal is used to efficiently compute the LCA in O(n) time complexity.
  • The approach computes the maximum depth of left and right subtrees for each node.
  • If both subtrees have the same depth, the current node becomes the LCA for its subtree.
  • The solution determines the LCA without explicitly collecting all deepest leaves.
  • The space complexity is O(h), where h is the height of the tree.
  • The function dfs performs post-order traversal, processing children before parent nodes.
  • Depth calculation is done for each node, and the depth is returned along with the LCA for leaf nodes.
  • Result extraction gives the LCA of the deepest leaves in the entire binary tree.
  • The approach is implemented using PHP and involves test cases to verify the solution.

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