Lintcode: Segment Tree Modify

Posted 2020-06-12

For a Maximum Segment Tree, which each node has an extra value max to store the maximum value in this node‘s interval.

Implement a modify function with three parameter root, index and value to change the node‘s value with [start, end] = [index, index] to the new given value. Make sure after this change, every node in segment tree still has the max attribute with the correct value.

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Example
For segment tree:

                      [1, 4, max=3]
                    /                        [1, 2, max=2]                [3, 4, max=3]
       /              \             /             [1, 1, max=2], [2, 2, max=1], [3, 3, max=0], [4, 4, max=3]
if call modify(root, 2, 4), we can get:

                      [1, 4, max=4]
                    /                        [1, 2, max=4]                [3, 4, max=3]
       /              \             /             [1, 1, max=2], [2, 2, max=4], [3, 3, max=0], [4, 4, max=3]
or call modify(root, 4, 0), we can get:

                      [1, 4, max=2]
                    /                        [1, 2, max=2]                [3, 4, max=0]
       /              \             /             [1, 1, max=2], [2, 2, max=1], [3, 3, max=0], [4, 4, max=0]
Note
We suggest you finish problem Segment Tree Build and Segment Tree Query first.

Challenge
Do it in O(h) time, h is the height of the segment tree.

 

 1 /**
 2  * Definition of SegmentTreeNode:
 3  * public class SegmentTreeNode {
 4  *     public int start, end, max;
 5  *     public SegmentTreeNode left, right;
 6  *     public SegmentTreeNode(int start, int end, int max) {
 7  *         this.start = start;
 8  *         this.end = end;
 9  *         this.max = max
10  *         this.left = this.right = null;
11  *     }
12  * }
13  */
14 public class Solution {
15     /**
16      *@param root, index, value: The root of segment tree and 
17      *@ change the node‘s value with [index, index] to the new given value
18      *@return: void
19      */
20     public void modify(SegmentTreeNode root, int index, int value) {
21         // write your code here
22         if (root.start == root.end) {
23             root.max = value;
24             return;
25         }
26         int mid = (root.start + root.end)/2;
27         if (index <= mid) modify(root.left, index, value);
28         else modify(root.right, index, value);
29         root.max = Math.max(root.left.max, root.right.max);
30     }
31 }