URL:
https://leetcode.com/problems/find-minimum-in-rotated-sorted-array-ii/description/
描述:
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 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.
The array may contain duplicates.
思路
本题的基本思路还是二分查找,只不过判断条件稍微复杂一些。对于数组
A(start…end)如果数组中A(start) 小于A(end),则直接返回A(start)就好了,否则数组就是被转化过的那么:
当 A(mid)< A(start)时:则mid在数组后半段的升序中,所以最小的元素在A(start+1…mid)中,所以start++;end = mid;
当A(mid)> A(start)时:则mid位于数组前半段的升序中,所以最小元素在A(mid+1,end)中,所以start = mid+1;
当A(mid) == A(start) 时: 此时我们无法知道mid在数组的前半段还是后半段,所以我们采用保守的方式,start++; 因为我们保证nums[start] >= nums[end]的条件,当start++后最小的元素还是在数组中。
代码示例
//递归版本
private int findMinHelper(int[]nums,int start,int end){
if(start>=end) return nums[start];
if(nums[start]<nums[end]) return nums[start];
int mid = (start+end)/2;
if(nums[mid]>nums[start]){
return findMinHelper(nums,mid+1,end);
}else if(nums[mid]<nums[end]){
return findMinHelper(nums, start + 1, mid);
}else{
return Math.min(findMinHelper(nums,start,mid-1),
findMinHelper(nums,mid+1,end));
}
}
//迭代版本
private int findMinHelper(int[]nums,int start,int end){
int mid;
while(start < end){
if(nums[start]<nums[end]){
return nums[start];
}else if(nums[start]==nums[end]){
start++;
}else{
mid = (start+end)/2;
if(nums[mid]>nums[start]){
start = mid+1;
}else if(nums[mid]<nums[start]){
start++;
end = mid;
}else{
start++;
}
}
}
return nums[start];
}
//提交代码的接口实现
public int findMin(int[] nums) {
if(nums==null || nums.length==0){
return 0;
}
return findMinHelper(nums,0,nums.length-1);
}
本文介绍了一种在已知数组可能包含重复元素的情况下,寻找旋转排序数组中的最小值的方法。通过二分查找算法,即使数组存在重复元素,也能高效地找到最小值。
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