Solution: Find Minimum Diameter After Merging Two Trees
Explore the process of determining the minimum possible diameter when merging two undirected trees. Learn to implement breadth-first search twice on each tree to find their diameters and apply a formula that combines these results. Understand how connecting tree centers helps minimize the final diameter after merging. This lesson guides you through adjacency list construction, BFS traversal, and diameter calculation for efficient tree manipulation.
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Statement
You are given two undirected trees: one with edges1 of length edges2 of length edges1[i] = [aᵢ, bᵢ] represents an edge between nodes edges2[i] = [uᵢ, vᵢ] represents an edge in the second tree.
Your task is to connect any node from the first tree to any one node from the second tree using a single ...