Today I have done leetcode's October LeetCoding Challenge with cpp.

October LeetCoding Challenge 23

Description

Find Minimum in Rotated Sorted Array II

Suppose an array of length n sorted in ascending order is rotated between 1 and n times. For example, the array nums = [0,1,4,4,5,6,7] might become:

• [4,5,6,7,0,1,4] if it was rotated 4 times.
• [0,1,4,4,5,6,7] if it was rotated 7 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 that may contain duplicates, return the minimum element of this array.

You must decrease the overall operation steps as much as possible.

Example 1:

Input: nums = [1,3,5]
Output: 1

Example 2:

Input: nums = [2,2,2,0,1]
Output: 0

Constraints:

• n == nums.length
• 1 <= n <= 5000
• -5000 <= nums[i] <= 5000
• nums is sorted and rotated between 1 and n times.

Follow up: This problem is similar to Find Minimum in Rotated Sorted Array, but nums may contain duplicates. Would this affect the runtime complexity? How and why?

Solution

auto speedup = [](){
  cin.tie(nullptr);
  cout.tie(nullptr);
  ios::sync_with_stdio(false);
  return 0;
}();
class Solution {
public:
  int findMin(vector<int>& nums) {
    return *min_element(nums.begin(), nums.end());
   }
};

// Accepted
// 192/192 cases passed (11 ms)
// Your runtime beats 22.47 % of cpp submissions
// Your memory usage beats 11.51 % of cpp submissions (12.3 MB)