LeetCode笔记：374. Guess Number Higher or Lower

问题：

We are playing the Guess Game. The game is as follows: I pick a number from 1 to n. You have to guess which number I picked. Every time you guess wrong, I'll tell you whether the number is higher or lower. You call a pre-defined API guess(int num) which returns 3 possible results (-1, 1, or 0): -1 : My number is lower 1 : My number is higher 0 : Congrats! You got it! Example: n = 10, I pick 6. Return 6.

大意：

我们玩一个猜数字游戏，方法如下： 我在1到n之间选一个数字，你来猜我选的是什么 每次你猜错了，我都会告诉你数字是大了还是小了 你可以调用预定义的 API guess(int num) ，它会返回三个可能的结果 (-1, 1, or 0)： -1 : 我的数字更小 1 : 我的数字更大 0 : 恭喜！猜中了！ 例子: n = 10, 我选 6. 返回6.

思路：

这道题题目主动提示了用二分法来做，所以只用把二分法的思想写出来，根据每次猜测得到的大了或者小了的结果来进行分别处理。猜小了就在大的那个区间去继续取中间数字猜，猜大了就在小的那个区间取中间数字猜，因为取中间数字猜整体来说是最快的，为了记录区间，还要保留上次猜的情况，来让区间越缩越小。

代码（Java）：

/* The guess API is defined in the parent class GuessGame.
   @param num, your guess
   @return -1 if my number is lower, 1 if my number is higher, otherwise return 0
      int guess(int num); */

public class Solution extends GuessGame {
    public int guessNumber(int n) {
        return helper(1,n);
    }
    
    public int helper(int start, int end){
        if(start == end) return start;
        int mid = Math.toIntExact(((long)start+(long)end)/2);
        int r = 0;
        if(guess(mid) == 0) r = mid;
        else if(guess(mid) == 1) r = helper(mid+1, end);
        else if(guess(mid) == -1) r = helper(start, mid-1);
        return r;
    }
}

合集：https://github.com/Cloudox/LeetCode-Record

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