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Lowest Common Ancestor of a Binary Tree II

Medium

Given the root of a binary tree, return the lowest common ancestor (LCA) of two given nodes, p and q. If either node p or q does not exist in the tree, return null. All values of the nodes in the tree are unique. According to the definition of LCA on Wikipedia: "The lowest common ancestor of two nodes p and q in a binary tree T is the lowest node that has both p and q as descendants (where we allow a node to be a descendant of itself)". A descendant of a node x is a node y that is on the path from node x to some leaf node. Example 1: Input: root = [3,5,1,6,2,0,8,null,null,7,4], p = 5, q = 1 Output: 3 Explanation: The LCA of nodes 5 and 1 is 3. Example 2: Input: root = [3,5,1,6,2,0,8,null,null,7,4], p = 5, q = 4 Output: 5 Explanation: The LCA of nodes 5 and 4 is 5. A node can be a descendant of itself according to the definition of LCA. Example 3: Input: root = [3,5,1,6,2,0,8,null,null,7,4], p = 5, q = 10 Output: null Explanation: Node 10 does not exist in the tree, so return null. Constraints: The number of nodes in the tree is in the range [1, 104]. -109 <= Node.val <= 109 All Node.val are unique. p != q Follow up: Can you find the LCA traversing the tree, without checking nodes existence?