LeetCode(39)-Intersection of Two Linked Lists

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题目：

Write a program to find the node at which the intersection of two singly linked lists begins.

For example, the following two linked lists:

A:          a1 → a2
                   ↘
                     c1 → c2 → c3
                   ↗
B:     b1 → b2 → b3
begin to intersect at node c1.

Notes:

If the two linked lists have no intersection at all, return null.
The linked lists must retain their original structure after the function returns.
You may assume there are no cycles anywhere in the entire linked structure.
Your code should preferably run in O(n) time and use only O(1) memory.

思路：

• 首先这道题目的意思是判断两条链表是不是有重叠的部分，如果有返回那个交叉的节点，如果没有返回null
• 这道题目的思路是：如果有交叉，最后肯定有相同的部分，如上面那样
• 举个例子，a和b两头链条，a.length = 7,b.length = 5,用两个指针listA和listB，分别指向a和b的head，listA往后两个，开始listA和listB同步往后移动开始比较，有相同的就有交叉，返回那个节点

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代码：

/**
 * Definition for singly-linked list.
 * public class ListNode {
 *     int val;
 *     ListNode next;
 *     ListNode(int x) {
 *         val = x;
 *         next = null;
 *     }
 * }
 */
public class Solution {
    public ListNode getIntersectionNode(ListNode headA, ListNode headB) {
        ListNode a = headA;;
        ListNode b = headB;;
        int lengthA = 0;
        int lengthB = 0;
        int n = 0;
        while(a != null){
            a = a.next;
            lengthA++;
        }
        while(b != null){
            b = b.next;
            lengthB++;
        }
        if(lengthA > lengthB){
            n = lengthA - lengthB;
             a = headA;
             b = headB;
            while( n > 0){
                n--;
                a = a.next;
            }
        }else{
            n = lengthB -lengthA;
            a = headA;
            b = headB;
            while(n > 0){
                n--;
                b = b.next;
            }
        }
        while(a != b){
            a = a.next;
            b = b.next;
        }
        return a;
    }
}