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104. Maximum Depth of Binary Tree

Given a binary tree, find its maximum depth.

The maximum depth is the number of nodes along the longest path from the root node down to the farthest leaf node.

Note: A leaf is a node with no children.

Example:

Given binary tree [3,9,20,null,null,15,7],

    3
   / \
  9  20
    /  \
   15   7

return its depth = 3.

Solutions (Python)

1. Recursion

# Definition for a binary tree node.
# class TreeNode:
#     def __init__(self, x):
#         self.val = x
#         self.left = None
#         self.right = None

class Solution:
    def maxDepth(self, root: TreeNode) -> int:
        if not root:
            return 0
        lmax = self.maxDepth(root.left)
        rmax = self.maxDepth(root.right)
        return max(lmax, rmax) + 1

2. Iteration

# Definition for a binary tree node.
# class TreeNode:
#     def __init__(self, x):
#         self.val = x
#         self.left = None
#         self.right = None

class Solution:
    def maxDepth(self, root: TreeNode) -> int:
        if not root:
            return 0
        depth = 0
        nodes = [root]
        while nodes:
            depth += 1
            nodes = [node.left for node in nodes if node.left] \
                + [node.right for node in nodes if node.right]
        return depth