Given a binary tree, check whether it is a mirror of itself (ie, symmetric around its center).
For example, this binary tree [1,2,2,3,4,4,3]
is symmetric:
1 / \ 2 2 / \ / \ 3 4 4 3
But the following [1,2,2,null,3,null,3]
is not:
1 / \ 2 2 \ \ 3 3
Note:
Bonus points if you could solve it both recursively and iteratively.
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/**
* Definition for a binary tree node.
* public class TreeNode {
* int val;
* TreeNode left;
* TreeNode right;
* TreeNode(int x) { val = x; }
* }
*/
public class Solution {
public boolean isSymmetric(TreeNode root) {
if (root == null || root.left == null && root.right == null) {
return true;
}
else if (root.left != null && root.right != null) {
return isSymmetricHelper(root.left, root.right);
} else {
return false;
}
}
public boolean isSymmetricHelper(TreeNode left, TreeNode right) {
if (left == null && right == null) {
return true;
} else if (left == null || right == null) {
return false;
}
return left.val == right.val && isSymmetricHelper(left.left, right.right)
&& isSymmetricHelper(left.right, right.left);
}
}