与Find Minimum in Rotated Sorted Array类似,只是在num[0]==num[n-1]时需要注意,这时不能根据num[n-1]的值来将数列一分为二。需要首先从数列头开始扫描,直到找到不等于数列头的元素,这时就可以退化为Find Minimum in Rotated Sorted Array来解决
class Solution {
public:
int findSecondPartHead(int start,int end,int val,const vector<int>& num)
{
while(start<end)
{
int mid=start+(end-start)/2;
if(num[mid]>val)
{
start=mid+1;
}
else
{
end=mid;
}
}
return start;
}
int findMin(vector<int> &num) {
int n=num.size();
if(n==0)
{
return -1;
}
if(n==1)
{
return num[0];
}
if(num[0]<num[n-1])
{
return num[0];
}
else if(num[0]>num[n-1])
{
int pos=findSecondPartHead(0,n,num[n-1],num);
return num[pos];
}
else
{
//hard part
//first scan from the start, find the frist position that val is bigger than the start position val
int i=1;
while((i<n)&&(num[0]==num[i]))
{
i++;
}
if(i==n)
{
return num[0];
}
else
{
int pos=findSecondPartHead(i,n,num[n-1],num);
return num[pos];
}
}
}
};