Wednesday, July 22, 2015

LintCode (160) Find Minimum in Rotated Array II

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.

如果有dup,会出现mid=beg的情况,二分不出来,只能移动beg了。。。


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class Solution {
public:
    /**
     * @param num: a rotated sorted array
     * @return: the minimum number in the array
     */
    int findMin(vector<int> &num) {
        if (num.empty()){
            return -1;
        }
        int beg=0; 
        int end=num.size()-1;
        if (num[beg]<num[end])
            return num[beg];
        int mid=0;
        
        while(beg+1<end){
            mid=beg+(end-beg)/2;
            if(num[mid]>num[beg]){
                beg=mid;
            } else if (num[mid]<num[beg]){
                end=mid;
            } else{
                beg++;
            }
        }
        return min(num[beg], num[end]);
    }
};

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