Program to find the lowest common ancestor of two nodes in binary search tree as well as binary tree. I was also asked to give the brute force approach for the same

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Program to find lowest common ancestor of two nodes in binary search tree and binary tree with brute force approach.

For binary search tree, traverse from root to both nodes and store the path. Then compare paths to find LCA.
For binary tree, traverse from root to both nodes and store the path. Then compare paths to find LCA.
Brute force approach involves checking each node's descendants to see if they contain both nodes.
Time complexity for brute force approach is O(n^2) for worst case.
Optimized approach involves traversing the tree only once and checking if current node is LCA.
Time complexity for optimized approach is O(n) for worst case.

Program to find the lowest common ancestor of two nodes in binary search tree as well as binary tree. I was also asked to give the brute force approach for the same

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