FastPrepLowest Common Ancestor in an Inserted BST

Lowest Common Ancestor in an Inserted BST

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Problem statement

Build a binary search tree by inserting the distinct values of insertionOrder from left to right. For each insertion, values smaller than the current node go left and larger values go right.

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Example 1

insertionOrder = [6,2,8,0,4,7,9,3,5]p = 2q = 8return = 6

The two nodes lie on opposite sides of the root, so 6 is their lowest common ancestor.

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