题目地址:https://leetcode.com/problems/find-minimum-in-rotated-sorted-array/
Suppose an array sorted in ascending order 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.
题目比较简单,既然数组本身有序或者是有序数组的旋转形式,那这个就好办了,从前往后扫就行了,如果一直递增,突然递减了,那么这个递减的就是最小值,如果数组都扫完了就没发现有递减的情况,那么第一个数字就是最小值。
public class FindMinimumInRotatedSortedArray {
public static int findMin(int[] nums) {
if (nums.length == 1)
return nums[0];
for (int i = 0; i < nums.length - 1; i++) {
if (nums[i] < nums[i + 1])
continue;
if (nums[i] > nums[i + 1])
return nums[i + 1];
}
return nums[0];
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
int[] nums = {4, 5, 6, 7, 0, 1, 2, 3};
System.out.println(findMin(nums));
}
}
平均时间复杂度为O(n)。