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Solution: Inorder Successor in BST

Understand how to find the inorder successor of a given node in a binary search tree by applying depth-first search. This lesson guides you through the algorithm that leverages BST relationships to efficiently locate the smallest node greater than the target. Learn the step-by-step traversal process, time and space complexity, and how this approach optimizes tree searches.

Statement

You are given the root node of a binary search tree and a specific node p. Your task is to return the inorder successor of this p node. If there is no inorder successor of the given node, return NULL.

Note: The inorder successor of p is the node with the smallest value greater than p.data in the binary search tree.

Constraints:

  • The tree contains nodes in the range ...