Given a linked list, return the node where the cycle begins. If there is no cycle, returnnull.

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Given a linked list, return the node where the cycle begins. If there is no cycle, returnnull.

Follow up:

思路:
1)同linked-list-cycle-i一题,使用快慢指针方法,判定是否存在环,并记录两指针相遇位置(Z);
2)将两指针分别放在链表头(X)和相遇位置(Z),并改为相同速度推进,则两指针在环开始位置相遇(Y)。

证明如下:
如下图所示,X,Y,Z分别为链表起始位置,环开始位置和两指针相遇位置,则根据快指针速度为慢指针速度的两倍,可以得出:
2*(a + b) = a + b + n * (b + c);即
a=(n - 1) * b + n * c = (n - 1)(b + c) +c;
注意到b+c恰好为环的长度,故可以推出,如将此时两指针分别放在起始位置和相遇位置,并以相同速度前进,当一个指针走完距离a时,另一个指针恰好走出 绕环n-1圈加上c的距离。
故两指针会在环开始位置相遇。
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class Solution {
public:
    ListNode *detectCycle(ListNode *head) {
        if(head == NULL){
            return 0;
        }
        ListNode* slow = head;
        ListNode* fast = head;
        while(fast != NULL && fast->next != NULL){
            slow = slow->next;
            fast = fast->next->next;
            if(slow == fast){
                break;
            }
        }
        if(fast == NULL || fast->next == NULL){
            return NULL;
        }
        slow = head;
        while(slow != fast){
            slow = slow->next;
            fast = fast->next;
        }
        return slow;
    }
};

 

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