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I just started programming in general and started with Java, in an assignment I got I need to find the longest increasing path of a binary search tree of integer. however I have no idea how to carry it out. I know how to count the longest path of a binary search tree, just not when you need to find the path that's the longest with the values increasing.

the part I am stuck with is that my code only counts the longest path of the right of the root node
 
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With your solution do you keep the following tree in mind:


You need something to define what a path in a tree is. You could keep track of the nodes or the start and end node.
 
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Jack, do you have a binary search tree, or just a simple binary tree?

If the former, then the longest increasing path would simply be the path from the root to the rightmost leaf.

However, if it's not a search tree, then you will have to call the method recursively on both subtrees.
 
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Stephan van Hulst wrote:Jack, do you have a binary search tree, or just a simple binary tree?

If the former, then the longest increasing path would simply be the path from the root to the rightmost leaf.

However, if it's not a search tree, then you will have to call the method recursively on both subtrees.



I am guessing it would be just a binary tree, with what i wrote i cant really figure out how to solve a method in case of


in this case the longest should be 3 (with 5->7->8->9) but my code will return 2 (with 10->12->13)
 
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This question is too difficult for "beginning", so I shall move it.
 
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out of curiosity what is the cost of find the leaves in a binary tree in big O notation
 
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Here's a tip:

For any binary tree, the length of the longest increasing path would be the length of the longest increasing path of either the left subtree, or the right subtree, whichever is bigger, plus 1 if the path starts at the root of the subtree, and the root of the parent is smaller than the root of the subtree.

Here are some helper method you could use:
 
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Done!
 
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