Description
The thief has found himself a new place for his thievery again. There is only one entrance to this area, called root
.
Besides the root
, each house has one and only one parent house. After a tour, the smart thief realized that all houses in this place form a binary tree. It will automatically contact the police if two directly-linked houses were broken into on the same night.
Given the root
of the binary tree, return the maximum amount of money the thief can rob without alerting the police.
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Example 1:

Input: root = [3,2,3,null,3,null,1] Output: 7 Explanation: Maximum amount of money the thief can rob = 3 + 3 + 1 = 7.
Example 2:

Input: root = [3,4,5,1,3,null,1] Output: 9 Explanation: Maximum amount of money the thief can rob = 4 + 5 = 9.
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Constraints:
- The number of nodes in the tree is in the range
[1, 104]
. 0 <= Node.val <= 104
Solution
Python3
# Definition for a binary tree node.
# class TreeNode:
# def __init__(self, val=0, left=None, right=None):
# self.val = val
# self.left = left
# self.right = right
class Solution:
def rob(self, root: Optional[TreeNode]) -> int:
@cache
def rob(node):
if not node: return 0
rob_this = node.val + not_rob(node.left) + not_rob(node.right)
not_rob_this = not_rob(node)
return max(rob_this, not_rob_this)
@cache
def not_rob(node):
if not node: return 0
return 0 + rob(node.left) + rob(node.right)
return rob(root)