Convert Sorted Array to Balanced Binary Search Tree (BST) 把已排序的数组转换成平衡二叉搜索树

A height-balanced tree is a tree whose subtrees differ in height by no more than one and the subtrees are height-balanced, too.

Solution:
If you would have to choose an array element to be the root of a balanced BST, which element would you pick? The root of a balanced BST should be the middle element from the sorted array.

You would pick the middle element from the sorted array in each iteration. You then create a node in the tree initialized with this element. After the element is chosen, what is left? Could you identify the sub-problems within the problem?

There are two arrays left — The one on its left and the one on its right. These two arrays are the sub-problems of the original problem, since both of them are sorted. Furthermore, they are subtrees of the current node’s left and right child.

The code below creates a balanced BST from the sorted array in O(N) time (N is the number of elements in the array). Compare how similar the code is to a binary search algorithm. Both are using the divide and conquer methodology.