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 class Solution {
public int findMin(int[] num) {
int l = 0;
int r = num.length - 1;
int mid = l;
int min = num[l];
while(num[l] >= num[r]){
if(r - l == 1)
{
mid = r;
break;
}
mid = (l + r)/2;
if(num[l] == num [r] && num[mid] == num[l]){
for(int i = l;i<=r;++i){
if(min > num[i])
min = num[i];
}
return min;
}
else if(num[mid] >= num[l])
l = mid;
else if(num[mid] <= num[r])
r = mid;
}
return num[mid];
}
}