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.
You may assume no duplicate exists in the array.
解题思路:二分法,如果中间值大于最右边的值,说明pivot在右,left= mid+1;注意这里要用mid+1,否则test case [2,1]出现死循环,因为不断的令left=mid。如果pivot不在右边,那么令right=mid。这里不需要right=mid-1,因为除非left== right(而while循环条件已经排除了这种可能),right不可能等于mid。
public int findMin(int[] num) {
int left = 0;
int right = num.length-1;
while (left < right) {
int mid = left + (right-left)/2;
if (num[mid] > num[right]) {
left = mid+1;
} else {
right = mid;
}
}
return num[left];
}
modified: while循环加入条件num[left] > num[right]这样我们就确定在搜寻一个pivot在其中的array。否则是一个正常排序array,只需要return left值
public int findMin(int[] num) {
int left = 0;
int right = num.length-1;
while (left < right && num[left] > num[right]) {
int mid = left + (right-left)/2;
if (num[mid] > num[right]) {
left = mid+1;
} else {
right = mid;
}
}
return num[left];
}