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Solution: Find Minimum Diameter After Merging Two Trees

Explore how to find the minimum diameter of a combined tree after merging two trees using breadth-first search. Understand the approach of double BFS to determine tree diameters and apply a formula that connects the trees via their centers to minimize the resulting diameter. This lesson helps you master tree traversal and diameter calculation for efficient problem solving.

Statement

You are given two undirected trees: one with nn nodes labeled from 00 to n1n - 1, and another with mm nodes labeled from 00 to m1m - 1. Their structures are defined by two 2D2D integer arrays—edges1 of length n1n - 1 for the first tree, and edges2 of length m1m - 1 for the second. Each element edges1[i] = [aᵢ, bᵢ] represents an edge between nodes aaᵢ and bbᵢ in the first tree, and similarly, edges2[i] = [uᵢ, vᵢ] represents an edge in the second tree.

Your task is to connect any node from the first tree to any one node from the second tree using a single ...