153. Find Minimum in Rotated Sorted Array
Medium
Suppose an array of length
n
sorted in ascending order is rotated between 1
and n
times. For example, the array nums = [0,1,2,4,5,6,7]
might become:[4,5,6,7,0,1,2]
if it was rotated4
times.[0,1,2,4,5,6,7]
if it was rotated7
times.
Notice that rotating an array
[a[0], a[1], a[2], ..., a[n-1]]
1 time results in the array [a[n-1], a[0], a[1], a[2], ..., a[n-2]]
.Given the sorted rotated array
nums
of unique elements, return the minimum element of this array.You must write an algorithm that runs in
O(log n) time.
Example 1:
Input: nums = [3,4,5,1,2]
Output:
1
Explanation:
The original array was [1,2,3,4,5] rotated 3 times.
Example 2:
Input: nums = [4,5,6,7,0,1,2]
Output:
0
Explanation:
The original array was [0,1,2,4,5,6,7] and it was rotated 4 times.
Example 3:
Input: nums = [11,13,15,17]
Output:
11
Explanation:
The original array was [11,13,15,17] and it was rotated 4 times.
Constraints:
n == nums.length
1 <= n <= 5000
-5000 <= nums[i] <= 5000
- All the integers of
nums
are unique. nums
is sorted and rotated between1
andn
times.
Binary Search
func findMin(nums []int) int {
left := 0
right := len(nums) - 1
for left < right {
mid := left + (right - left) / 2
if nums[mid] > nums[right] {
left = mid + 1
} else {
right = mid
}
}
return nums[right]
}
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