Difficulty: Easy
Problem statement:
Given a non-empty, singly linked list with head node head, return a middle node of linked list.
If there are two middle nodes, return the second middle node.
Example 1:
Input: [1,2,3,4,5]
Output: Node 3 from this list (Serialization: [3,4,5])
The returned node has value 3. (The judge’s serialization of this node is [3,4,5]).
Note that we returned a ListNode object ans, such that:
ans.val = 3, ans.next.val = 4, ans.next.next.val = 5, and ans.next.next.next = NULL.Example 2:
Input: [1,2,3,4,5,6]
Output: Node 4 from this list (Serialization: [4,5,6])
Since the list has two middle nodes with values 3 and 4, we return the second one.Note:
The number of nodes in the given list will be between 1 and 100.
Another painfully easy problem. I’m surprised they didn’t start with these sooner.
My solution is extremely obvious. Time complexity is O(n) and space complexity is O(n).
/**
* Definition for singly-linked list.
* type ListNode struct {
* Val int
* Next *ListNode
* }
*/
func middleNode(head *ListNode) *ListNode {
elements := []*ListNode{}
for head != nil {
elements = append(elements, head)
head = head.Next
}
return elements[len(elements) / 2]
}