2023-08-08 Daily Challenge

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

August LeetCoding Challenge 8

Description

Search in Rotated Sorted Array

There is an integer array nums sorted in ascending order (with distinct values).

Prior to being passed to your function, nums is possibly rotated at an unknown pivot index k (1 <= k < nums.length) such that the resulting array is [nums[k], nums[k+1], ..., nums[n-1], nums[0], nums[1], ..., nums[k-1]] (0-indexed). For example, [0,1,2,4,5,6,7] might be rotated at pivot index 3 and become [4,5,6,7,0,1,2].

Given the array nums after the possible rotation and an integer target, return the index of target if it is in nums, or -1 if it is not in nums.

You must write an algorithm with O(log n) runtime complexity.

 

Example 1:

Input: nums = [4,5,6,7,0,1,2], target = 0
Output: 4

Example 2:

Input: nums = [4,5,6,7,0,1,2], target = 3
Output: -1

Example 3:

Input: nums = [1], target = 0
Output: -1

 

Constraints:

  • 1 <= nums.length <= 5000
  • -104 <= nums[i] <= 104
  • All values of nums are unique.
  • nums is an ascending array that is possibly rotated.
  • -104 <= target <= 104

Solution

class Solution {
public:
  int search(vector<int>& nums, int target) {
    int len = nums.size();
    int begin = 0;
    int end = len - 1;
    int mid;
    while (nums[begin] > nums[end]) {
      mid = (begin + end) / 2;
      if (nums[mid] >= nums[begin]) {
        begin = mid + 1;
      } else {
        end = mid;
      }
    }
    int pivot = begin;
    begin = 0;
    end = len;
    while (begin < end) {
      mid = (begin + end) / 2;
      if (nums[(mid + pivot) % len] < target) begin = mid + 1;
      else end = mid;
    }
    return nums[(begin + pivot) % len] == target ? (begin + pivot) % len : -1;
  }
};

// Accepted
// 195/195 cases passed (0 ms)
// Your runtime beats 100 % of cpp submissions
// Your memory usage beats 13.7 % of cpp submissions (11.1 MB)
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