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LeetCode 222, Medium. Topics: Binary Search, Bit Manipulation, Tree, Binary Tree. View on LeetCode. Generate this problem as a practice environment: tested reference solution, 32 parametrized pytest cases, and a playground notebook:

Problem

Given the root of a complete binary tree, return the number of the nodes in the tree. According to Wikipedia’s definition of a complete binary tree, every level, except possibly the last, is completely filled in a complete binary tree, and all nodes in the last level are as far left as possible. It can have between 1 and 2^h nodes inclusive at the last level h. Design an algorithm that runs in less than O(n) time complexity.

Examples

Example 1

Constraints

  • The number of nodes in the tree is in the range [0, 5 * 10^4].
  • 0 <= Node.val <= 5 * 10^4
  • The tree is guaranteed to be complete.
Follow up: Design an algorithm that runs in less than O(n) time complexity.

Solution

Reference implementation from solution.py on GitHub, full suite in test_solution.py:

Complexity

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Last modified on September 7, 2026