Easy
Quiz
#374 Guess Number Higher or Lower
APPROACH
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 (the number I picked stays the same throughout the game).
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:
- -1: Your guess is higher than the number I picked (i.e. num > pick).
- 1: Your guess is lower than the number I picked (i.e. num < pick).
- 0: your guess is equal to the number I picked (i.e. num == pick).
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
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What is the optimal approach for this problem?