From : https://leetcode.com/problems/find-minimum-in-rotated-sorted-array-ii/
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 findMin(vector<int>& nums) {
int start=0, end=nums.size()-1;
while(start <= end) {
int mid = (start+end)>>1;
if(nums[mid] == nums[start] && nums[mid] == nums[end]) {
return findMin(nums, start, end);
} else if(nums[mid] >= nums[start] && nums[start] >= nums[end]) {
start = mid+1;
} else {
end = mid;
}
}
return 0;
}
int findMin(vector<int>& nums, int start, int end) {
int res = nums[start];
for(int i=start+1; i<=end; ++i) {
if(nums[i] < res) {
return nums[i];
} else if(nums[i] > res) {
while(i < end) {
if(nums[i] > nums[i+1]) {
return nums[i+1];
}
++i;
}
}
}
return res;
}
};