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Program to Find Maximum Element in an Array using Binary Search

Program to Find Maximum Element in an Array using Binary Search

- Construct a Binary Search Tree for the given data.
- Search the maximum element with time complexity O(log(n)).

- Construct binary search tree for the given unsorted data array.
- For the maximum element move the pointer to the rightmost child node.
- This value will be the minimum value among the given data.
- Exit.

#include<iostream>
 
using namespace std;
 
// A structure representing a node of a tree.
struct node
{
	int data;
	node *left;
	node *right;
};
 
// A function creating new node of tree and assigning the data.
node* CreateNode(int data)
{
	node *newnode = new node;
	newnode->data = data;
	newnode->left = NULL;
	newnode->right = NULL;
 
	return newnode;
}
 
// A function creating binary search tree.
node* InsertIntoTree(node* root, int data)
{
	// Create node using data from argument list.
	node *temp = CreateNode(data);
	node *t = new node;
	t = root;
 
	// If root is null, assign it to the node created.
	if(root == NULL)
		root = temp;
	else	
	{
		// Find the position for the new node to be inserted.
		while(t != NULL)
		{
			if(t->data < data )
			{
				if(t->right == NULL)
				{
					// If current node is NULL then insert the node.
					t->right = temp;
					break;
				}
				// Shift pointer to the left.
				t = t->right;
			}
 
			else if(t->data > data)
			{
				if(t->left == NULL)
				{
					// If current node is NULL then insert the node.
					t->left = temp;
					break;
				}
				// Shift pointer to the left.	
				t = t->left;
			}
		}
	}
	return root;
}
  
int main()
{
	char ch;
	int n, i, a[20]={86, 59, 96, 1, 8, 63, 74, 44, 88, 13, 23, 24, 36, 96, 76, 41, 49, 81, 66, 97};
	node *root = new node;
	root = NULL;
 
	// Construct the BST.
	cout<<"\nData set:\n";
	for(i = 0; i < 20; i++)
	{
		cout<<a[i]<<" ";
		root = InsertIntoTree(root, a[i]);
	}
 
	// Traverse to the rightmost child node to get maximum of the given data.
	cout<<"\n\nThe maximum element of the given data set is ";
	i = 0;
	while(root->right != NULL)
	{
		i++;
		root = root->right;
	}
	cout<<root->data<<" found at "<<i<<" depth from the root.";
 
	return 0;
}