Given a linked list, determine if it has a cycle in it.

Follow up:
Can you solve it without using extra space?

一个笨办法是将每个节点插入一个unordered_map里,每次插入前去查一下是否已经存在,这个方法需要额外的存储空间;另一个方法是用两个指针遍历链表,一个指针每次走一步,另一个指针每次走两步,如果有环,这两个指针必定会相遇,具体代码如下

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/**
* Definition for singly-linked list.
* struct ListNode {
* int val;
* ListNode *next;
* ListNode(int x) : val(x), next(NULL) {}
* };
*/
class Solution {
public:
bool hasCycle(ListNode *head) {
if (head == nullptr)
return false;
ListNode *p1 = head, *p2 = head;
bool result = false;
while (p1 && p2) {
p1 = p1->next;
p2 = p2->next;
if (!p2) {
result = false;
break;
} else {
p2 = p2->next;
}

if (p1 == p2) {
result = true;
break;
}
}
return result;
}
};