diff --git a/src/main/java/com/fishercoder/solutions/_459.java b/src/main/java/com/fishercoder/solutions/_459.java
index fa79948304..4aae50e864 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/fishercoder/solutions/_459.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/fishercoder/solutions/_459.java
@@ -37,7 +37,27 @@ public static boolean repeatedSubstringPattern(String str) {
         
         return (pattern[n-1] > 0 && n%(n-pattern[n-1]) == 0);
     }
+//// the idea is that the length substring will be divisor of the length s, then find the
+//sub string and append s.length/sub.length times to check if the string is equaled to the original string.
+//credit: https://leetcode.com/problems/repeated-substring-pattern/discuss/
 
+    public static boolean repeatedSubstringPattern_2(String s) {
+                int len = s.length();
+                for (int i = len/2; i >=1; i--) {
+                       if (len % i == 0) {
+                                int n = len / i;
+                                String sub = s.substring(0, i);
+                                StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
+                                for (int j = 0; j < n; j++) {
+                                        sb.append(sub);
+                                    }
+                               if (sb.toString().equals(s)) {
+                                        return true;
+                                    }
+                            }
+                    }
+                return false;
+    }
     public static void main(String...args){
 //        String str = "aba";
 //        String str = "abab";//should be true
@@ -47,5 +67,6 @@ public static void main(String...args){
 //        String str = "abababc";
         String str = "abababaaba";
         System.out.println(repeatedSubstringPattern(str));
+        System.out.println(repeatedSubstringPattern_2(str));
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/fishercoder/solutions/_508.java b/src/main/java/com/fishercoder/solutions/_508.java
index cc84408823..5306d6b48e 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/fishercoder/solutions/_508.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/fishercoder/solutions/_508.java
@@ -81,3 +81,35 @@ private int postOrder(TreeNode root, Map<TreeNode, Integer> map) {
     //a more concise and space-efficient solution: https://discuss.leetcode.com/topic/77775/verbose-java-solution-postorder-traverse-hashmap-18ms
     //the key difference between the above post and my original solution is that it's using Frequency as the key of the HashMap
 }
+public class Solution {
+    Map<Integer, Integer> map;// record the sub sums and their frequence
+    int max;
+    public int[] findFrequentTreeSum(TreeNode root) {
+        map = new HashMap<Integer, Integer>();
+        max = 0;
+        helper(root);// post order to put the subsum to the map
+        List<Integer> list = new ArrayList<>();
+        for (int key : map.keySet()) {
+            if (map.get(key) == max) {
+                list.add(key);
+            }
+        }
+        int[] res = new int[list.size()];
+        for (int i = 0; i < res.length; i++) {
+            res[i] = list.get(i);
+        }
+        return res;
+    }
+    public int helper(TreeNode root) {
+        if (root ==null) {
+            return 0;
+        }
+        int left = helper(root.left);
+        int right = helper(root.right);
+        int sum = left + right + root.val;
+        map.put(sum, map.getOrDefault(sum, 0) + 1);
+        max = Math.max(max, map.get(sum));//update the max frequence each time we put in a sum to the map.
+        return sum;
+
+    }
+}
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diff --git a/src/main/java/com/fishercoder/solutions/_538.java b/src/main/java/com/fishercoder/solutions/_538.java
index 094bbc7e4d..1d8c6c42e6 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/fishercoder/solutions/_538.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/fishercoder/solutions/_538.java
@@ -61,5 +61,23 @@ private void putNodeToList(List<Integer> list, TreeNode root) {
         if (root.left != null) putNodeToList(list, root.left);
         if (root.right != null) putNodeToList(list, root.right);
     }
+    //easy recursive solution for bst, the idea is to do a reverse inorder traversal.
+    int sum = 0;
+    public TreeNode convertBST_rec(TreeNode root) {
+        if(root == null) {
+            return root;
+        }
+        helper(root);
+        return root;
 
+    }
+    public void helper(TreeNode root) {
+        if(root == null) {
+            return;
+        }
+        helper(root.right);
+        root.val += sum;
+        sum =root.val;
+        helper(root.left);
+    }
 }