# How to find height or maximum depth of binary of binary tree ?

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Given a binary tree, find its maximum depth.

The maximum depth is the number of nodes along the longest path from the root node down to the farthest leaf node.

Note: A leaf is a node with no children.

Example:

Given binary tree [3,9,20,null,null,15,7],

3

/ \

9  20

/  \

15   7

return its depth = 3.

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Diameter of binary tree

You might also be interested in reading this as the above problem is a subset of this:-

https://www.golibrary.co/finding-diameter-of-a-binary-tree/

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Here is a simple Javascript algorithm to achieve the same.

Steps

1. Traverse and find height of left subtree.
2. Traverse and find height of right subtree.
3. Find max between heights of left and right subtrees.
4. return the max height + 1 (for root node).

Javascript code:-

/**
* Definition for a binary tree node.
* function TreeNode(val) {
*     this.val = val;
*     this.left = this.right = null;
* }
*/
/**
* @param {TreeNode} root
* @return {number}
*/
var maxDepth = function(root) {
if (root === null) return 0;
return Math.max(maxDepth(root.left), maxDepth(root.right)) + 1;
};

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