我可能会非常晚和新的处理这个线程。但还是. .

为什么不能将节点的地址和“下一个”节点指向存储在表中

如果我们可以这样做

node present: (present node addr) (next node address)

node 1: addr1: 0x100 addr2: 0x200 ( no present node address till this point had 0x200)
node 2: addr2: 0x200 addr3: 0x300 ( no present node address till this point had 0x300)
node 3: addr3: 0x300 addr4: 0x400 ( no present node address till this point had 0x400)
node 4: addr4: 0x400 addr5: 0x500 ( no present node address till this point had 0x500)
node 5: addr5: 0x500 addr6: 0x600 ( no present node address till this point had 0x600)
node 6: addr6: 0x600 addr4: 0x400 ( ONE present node address till this point had 0x400)

这样就形成了一个循环。

比弗洛伊德的算法好

Richard Brent描述了一种替代周期检测算法，它很像兔子和乌龟(弗洛伊德周期)，除了这里的慢节点不移动，但随后会以固定的间隔“传送”到快节点的位置。

该描述可在布伦特的周期检测算法(瞬移海龟)。布伦特声称他的算法比弗洛伊德的循环算法快24%到36%。 O(n)时间复杂度，O(1)空间复杂度。

public static boolean hasLoop(Node root) {
    if (root == null) return false;
    
    Node slow = root, fast = root;
    int taken = 0, limit = 2;
    
    while (fast.next != null) {
        fast = fast.next;
        taken++;
        if (slow == fast) return true;
        
        if (taken == limit) {
            taken = 0;
            limit <<= 1;    // equivalent to limit *= 2;
            slow = fast;    // teleporting the turtle (to the hare's position) 
        }
    }
    return false;
}

如果允许我们嵌入类Node，我将像下面实现的那样解决这个问题。hasLoop()在O(n)时间内运行，并且只占用计数器的空间。这是不是一个合适的解决方案?或者是否有一种不嵌入Node的方法?(显然，在真正的实现中会有更多的方法，如RemoveNode(Node n)等。)

public class LinkedNodeList {
    Node first;
    Int count;

    LinkedNodeList(){
        first = null;
        count = 0;
    }

    LinkedNodeList(Node n){
        if (n.next != null){
            throw new error("must start with single node!");
        } else {
            first = n;
            count = 1;
        }
    }

    public void addNode(Node n){
        Node lookingAt = first;

        while(lookingAt.next != null){
            lookingAt = lookingAt.next;
        }

        lookingAt.next = n;
        count++;
    }

    public boolean hasLoop(){

        int counter = 0;
        Node lookingAt = first;

        while(lookingAt.next != null){
            counter++;
            if (count < counter){
                return false;
            } else {
               lookingAt = lookingAt.next;
            }
        }

        return true;

    }



    private class Node{
        Node next;
        ....
    }

}

这是我在java中的解决方案

boolean detectLoop(Node head){
    Node fastRunner = head;
    Node slowRunner = head;
    while(fastRunner != null && slowRunner !=null && fastRunner.next != null){
        fastRunner = fastRunner.next.next;
        slowRunner = slowRunner.next;
        if(fastRunner == slowRunner){
            return true;
        }
    }
    return false;
}

 // To detect whether a circular loop exists in a linked list
public boolean findCircularLoop() {
    Node slower, faster;
    slower = head;
    faster = head.next; // start faster one node ahead
    while (true) {

        // if the faster pointer encounters a NULL element
        if (faster == null || faster.next == null)
            return false;
        // if faster pointer ever equals slower or faster's next
        // pointer is ever equal to slower then it's a circular list
        else if (slower == faster || slower == faster.next)
            return true;
        else {
            // advance the pointers
            slower = slower.next;
            faster = faster.next.next;
        }
    }
}

下面是检测循环的解决方案。

public boolean hasCycle(ListNode head) {
            ListNode slow =head;
            ListNode fast =head;

            while(fast!=null && fast.next!=null){
                slow = slow.next; // slow pointer only one hop
                fast = fast.next.next; // fast pointer two hops 

                if(slow == fast)    return true; // retrun true if fast meet slow pointer
            }

            return false; // return false if fast pointer stop at end 
        }