Find Minimum in Rotated Sorted Array
原题: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.
此题第一想法就是:将第一个元素赋值给min,然后追个扫描每个元素,若有比该值小的元素,则更新min。最后返回min。时间复杂度为O(n),代码如下:
class Solution {
public:
int findMin(vector<int> &num) {
int min=0;
min = num[0];
for(int i=0;i<num.size();++i)
{
if( min < num[i])
continue;
else
min = num[i];
}
return min;
}
};
还有一种做法是将原有数组进行排序,但是会改变原有数组,时间复杂度为O(n*logn).代码如下:
class Solution {
public:
int findMin(vector<int> &num) {
sort(num.begin(),num.end());
return num[0];
}
};