LeetCode 255, Medium. Topics: Stack, Tree, Binary Search Tree, Recursion, Array, Binary Tree, Monotonic Stack. View on LeetCode.
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Problem
Given an array of unique integers preorder, return true if it is the correct preorder traversal sequence of a binary search tree.
Examples
Constraints
1 <= preorder.length <= 10^4
1 <= preorder[i] <= 10^4
- All the elements of
preorder are unique.
Follow up: Could you do it using only constant space complexity?
Solution
Reference implementation from solution.py on GitHub, full suite in test_solution.py:
Complexity
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