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Longest ZigZag Path in a Binary Tree

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A ZigZag path starts at any node, moves to a child, then keeps alternating direction (left, right, left, …). The length is the number of nodes visited − 1. Given the root of a binary tree, return the longest ZigZag path length.

[1,null,1,1,1,null,null,1,1,null,1,null,null,null,1] → 3

[1,1,1,null,1,null,null,1,1,null,1] → 4

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