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 a sorted array 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.
public int findMin(int[] nums) {
int l = 0, r = nums.length-1;
while (l < r) {
int mid = (l + r) / 2;
if (nums[mid] < nums[r]) {
r = mid;
} else if (nums[mid] > nums[r]){
l = mid + 1;
} else {
r--; //nums[mid]=nums[r] no idea, but we can eliminate nums[r];
}
}
return nums[l];
}