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DIY: Lowest Common Ancestor of a Binary Tree III

Understand how to find the lowest common ancestor for two given nodes in a binary tree by leveraging parent references. This lesson guides you through solving this classic problem step-by-step, improving your problem-solving skills for coding interviews.

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Problem statement

Suppose you are given two nodes of a binary tree node1 and node2. Your task is to find the lowest common ancestor (LCA) of these two nodes in the tree.

Note: The lowest node that has both node1 and node2 as its descendants (where we allow a node to be a descendant of itself), is called the lowest common ...