Guess Number Higher or Lower
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.
# The guess API is already defined for you.
# @param num, your guess
# @return -1 if my number is lower, 1 if my number is higher, otherwise return 0
# def guess(num):
class Solution(object):
def guessNumber(self, n):
"""
:type n: int
:rtype: int
"""
lo, hi = 1, n
while lo < hi:
mid = (lo + hi) / 2
g = guess(mid)
if g == 1:
lo = mid + 1
elif g == -1:
hi = mid
else:
return mid
return lo
Note: 凡是Binary Search的循环,low都要是middle + 1