153. Find Minimum in Rotated Sorted Array

# Medium

Same as #33.

Solution 1:

  1. find the pivot as #33

  2. consider 2 situations: this is an ascending list or rotated list

  3. consider edge case: 1 element

Solution 2:

find the pivot as #33.

// java efficient
class Solution {
    public int findMin(int[] nums) {
        int left = 0, right = nums.length - 1;
        while(left < right) {
            int mid = left + (right - left)/2;
            if(nums[mid] > nums[right])
                left = mid + 1;
            else
                right = mid;
        }
        
        return nums[left];
    }
}

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