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Cousins in Binary Tree II
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1Give yourself 5 minutes
2Answer out loud, not in your head
3Then compare with the answer below
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Stuck? Show a way to structure it+
- 01Set root value to zero.
- 02Process one level at a time.
- 03Compute total child value sum for the next level.
- 04For each parent, assign children total minus its sibling sum.
- 05Queue children after calculating from original values.
Reference answer
Then expect these follow-ups
Can DFS solve this with depth aggregates?
Tests: follow-up reasoning
Why is the sibling sum subtracted for every child of one parent?
Tests: correctness reasoning
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