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