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> &num) {
int left = 0, right = num.size()-1, min = INT_MAX;
while(left <= right)
{
int mid = (left + right)/2;
if(num[mid] < min)
min = num[mid];
if(num[mid] < num[right])
right = mid - 1;
else if(num[mid] > num[right])
left = mid + 1;
else
right--;
}
return min;
}
};