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.
Solution:
1 /* The guess API is defined in the parent class GuessGame. 2 @param num, your guess 3 @return -1 if my number is lower, 1 if my number is higher, otherwise return 0 4 int guess(int num); */ 5 6 public class Solution extends GuessGame { 7 public int guessNumber(int n) { 8 int low = 1; 9 int high = n; 10 11 while (low<=high){ 12 int mid = (high-low)/2 + low; 13 int res = guess(mid); 14 if (res == 0){ 15 return mid; 16 } else if (res == -1) { 17 high = mid-1; 18 } else { 19 low = mid+1; 20 } 21 } 22 23 return -1; 24 } 25 }