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.
class Solution {
public:
int minimum;
void findMin(vector<int> &num, int left, int right) {
if(left > right) return;
int mid = (left + right) / 2;
if(num[left] < num[mid]) {
minimum = min(minimum, num[left]);
findMin(num, mid + 1, right);
return;
}
if(num[mid] < num[right]) {
minimum = min(minimum, num[mid]);
findMin(num, left, mid - 1);
return;
}
minimum = min(minimum, num[left]);
findMin(num, left, mid - 1);
findMin(num, mid + 1, right);
}
int findMin(vector<int> &num) {
if(num.size() == 0) return 0;
minimum = 0x7fffffff;
findMin(num, 0, num.size() - 1);
return minimum;
}
};