Follow up for "Find Minimum in Rotated Sorted Array":
What if duplicates are allowed?Would this affect the run-time complexity? How and why?
Suppose an array sorted in ascending order is rotated at some pivot unknown to you beforehand.
(i.e., 0 1 2 4 5 6 7
might become 4 5 6 7 0 1 2
).
Find the minimum element.
The array may contain duplicates.
class Solution {
public:
int findMin(vector<int>& nums) {
if(nums.size() == 0)
return 0;
if(nums.size() == 1)
return nums[0];
int low = 0, high = nums.size() - 1,mid;
while(low < high){
mid = (low + high) / 2;
if(nums[mid] < nums[high])
high = mid;
else if(nums[mid] > nums[high] )
low = mid + 1;
else
high --;
if(low == high)
return nums[low];
}
return nums[mid];
}
};