lowest common ancestor of a binary tree

Given a binary tree, find the lowest common ancestor (LCA) of two given nodes in the tree.

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Definition for a binary tree node.
public class TreeNode {

int val;
TreeNode left;
TreeNode right;
TreeNode(int x) { val = x; }
}
/
class {
public TreeNode lowestCommonAncestor(TreeNode root, TreeNode p, TreeNode q) {
if((root==null)||(root==p||root==q))
return root;
TreeNode left=lowestCommonAncestor(root.left,p,q);
TreeNode right=lowestCommonAncestor(root.right,p,q);
if((left!=null)&&(right!=null))
return root;
else
{
return left==null?right:left;
}
}
}

思路:两个节点必然位于公共结点的左右两边。
采用递归。