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Kth Smallest Element in a BST (medium)
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Problem Statement

Given a root node of the Binary Search Tree (BST) and integer 'k'. Return the Kth smallest element among all node values of the binary tree.

Examples:

  1. Example 1:
    Input:

        8
   / \
  3   10
 / \    \
1   6    14
   /  \  /
  4   7  13

    k = 4
    Expected Output: 6
    Justification: The in-order traversal of the tree is [1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 13, 14]. The 4th element in this sequence is 6.

  2. Example 2:
    Input:

        5
   / \
  2   6
 /
1

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