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374. Guess Number Higher or Lower

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Problem Statement

374. Guess Number Higher or Lower

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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 will tell you whether the number I picked is higher or lower than your guess.

You call a pre-defined API int guess(int num), which returns three possible results:

Return the number that I picked.

 

Example 1:

Input: n = 10, pick = 6
Output: 6

Example 2:

Input: n = 1, pick = 1
Output: 1

Example 3:

Input: n = 2, pick = 1
Output: 1

 

Constraints:

C++

Source file
/** 
 * Forward declaration of guess API.
 * @param  num   your guess
 * @return 	     -1 if num is higher than the picked number
 *			      1 if num is lower than the picked number
 *               otherwise return 0
 * int guess(int num);
 */

class Solution {
public:
    int guessNumber(int n) {
        int lo=1, hi=n;
        while(lo<hi){
            int mid=lo+(hi-lo)/2;
            if(guess(mid)==0)
                return mid;
            guess(mid)==1?lo=mid+1:hi=mid-1;
        }
        return lo;
    }
};