今天看到LeetCode OJ題目下方多了“Show Tags”功能。我覺著挺好，方便剛開始學習的人分類練習。同一時候也是解題時的思路提示。

【題目】

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.

You may assume no duplicate exists in the array.

題目比較簡單，直接看代碼吧，可是要想把代碼寫得美麗並不easy啊。

O(n)非常好寫，O(lgn)要好好捋捋思路。

public class Solution {
    // O(n) simple
    public int findMin1(int[] num) {
        int len = num.length;
        if (len == 1) {
            return num[0];
        }
        
        for (int i = 1; i < len; i++) {
            if (num[i] < num[i-1]) {
                return num[i];
            }
        }
        
        return num[0];
        
        // 尼瑪，看成找中間數了
        // if (len % 2 != 0) { //len is odd
        //     return num[(begin+len/2)%len];
        // } else {    //len is even
        //     return (num[(begin+len/2-1)%len] + num[(begin+len/2)%len]) / 2;
        // }
    }
    
    
    // O(lgn) not that good
    public int findMin2(int[] num) {
        int len = num.length;
        if (len == 1) return num[0];
        
        int left = 0, right = len-1;
        while (left < right) {
            if ((right-left) == 1) return Math.min(num[left], num[right]);
            
            if (num[left] <= num[right]) return num[left];
            
            int mid = (left + right) / 2;
            if (num[mid] < num[right]) {
                right = mid;
            } else if (num[left] < num[mid]) {
                left = mid;
            }
        }
        
        return num[left];
    }
    
    
    // O(lgn) optimized iteratively
    public int findMin3(int[] num) {
        int len = num.length;
        if (len == 1) return num[0];
        int left = 0, right = len-1;
        while (num[left] > num[right]) { // good idea
            int mid = (left + right) / 2;
            if (num[mid] > num[right]) {
                left = mid + 1;
            } else {
                right = mid; // be careful, not mid-1, as num[mid] maybe the minimum
            }
        }
        return num[left];
    }
    
    
    // O(lgn) optimized recursively
    public int findMin(int[] num) {
        return find(num, 0, num.length-1);
    }
    
    public int find(int[] num, int left, int right) {
        if (num[left] <= num[right]) {
            return num[left];
        }
        int mid = (left + right) / 2;
        if (num[mid] > num[right]) {
            return find(num, mid+1, right);
        }
        return find(num, left, mid);
    }
}

【LeetCode】Find Minimum in Rotated Sorted Array 解題報告