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Solution: Find Ancestors of a Given Node in a BST

Explore how to identify all ancestor nodes of a specific value in a binary search tree using both recursive and iterative approaches. Understand the logic and walk through the implementation details in JavaScript, including time and space complexity considerations for balanced and skewed BSTs.

Statement

Given the root node of a binary search tree (BST) and an integer value k, find all the ancestors of the node whose value is k.

An ancestor of a node in a tree is any node on the path from the root to that node.

Constraints:

Let n be the number of nodes in a binary search tree.

  • 1n5001 \leq n \leq 500
  • 10310^{-3 }\leq Node.data 1
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