LeetCode:Valid Perfect Square


Valid Perfect Square
Total Accepted: 1976 
Total Submissions: 5317 
Difficulty: Medium
Given a positive integer num, write a function which returns True if num is a perfect square else False.
Note: Do not use any built-in library function such as  sqrt .
Example 1:
Input: 16
Returns: True

Example 2:
Input: 14
Returns: False

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java code:
public class Solution {
    public boolean isPerfectSquare(int num) {
        
        long lo = 1, hi = num / 2;
        
        if(num == 1) return true;
        
        long x = num;
        
        while(lo <= hi) {
            long mid = lo + (hi - lo) / 2;
            if(mid * mid == x)
                return true;
            else if(mid * mid < x)
                lo = mid + 1;
            else
                hi = mid - 1;
        }
        return false;
    }
}