http://www.lintcode.com/en/problem/find-minimum-in-rotated-sorted-array/
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.
Example Given [4, 5, 6, 7, 0, 1, 2] return 0
解题:反转数组里面找最小值,我们只需要判断取中间值的时候左半边是sorted还是右半边是sorted。方法就是拿mid值和最后一个值比。
public class Solution {
/**
* @param nums: a rotated sorted array
* @return: the minimum number in the array
*/
public int findMin(int[] nums) {
// write your code here
if (nums == null || nums.length == 0) {
return -1;
}
int start = 0;
int end = nums.length - 1;
int target = nums[end];
while (start + 1 < end) {
int mid = start + (end - start) / 2;
if (nums[mid] <= target) {
end = mid;
} else {
start = mid;
}
}
if (nums[start] < nums[end]) {
return nums[start];
}
return nums[end];
}
}