feat(work): add Kth Smallest Element in a BST solution

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Prad Nukala
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230. Kth Smallest Element in a BST
Difficulty: Medium
https://leetcode.com/problems/kth-smallest-element-in-a-bst/
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Given the root of a binary search tree, and an integer k, return the
k^th smallest value (1-indexed) of all the values of the nodes in the
tree.
Example 1:
Input: root = [3,1,4,null,2], k = 1
Output: 1
Example 2:
Input: root = [5,3,6,2,4,null,null,1], k = 3
Output: 3
Constraints:
• The number of nodes in the tree is n.
• 1 <= k <= n <= 10^4
• 0 <= Node.val <= 10^4
Follow up: If the BST is modified often (i.e., we can do insert and
delete operations) and you need to find the kth smallest frequently,
how would you optimize?
"""
# 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 kthSmallest(self, root: Optional[TreeNode], k: int) -> int:
n = 0
stack = []
cur = root
while cur or stack:
while cur:
stack.append(cur)
cur = cur.left
cur = stack.pop()
n += 1
if n == k:
return cur.val
cur = cur.right