0153. Find Minimum in Rotated Sorted Array

https://leetcode.com/problems/find-minimum-in-rotated-sorted-array

Description

Suppose an array of length n sorted in ascending order is rotated between 1 and n times. For example, the array nums = [0,1,2,4,5,6,7] might become:

  • [4,5,6,7,0,1,2] if it was rotated 4 times.

  • [0,1,2,4,5,6,7] 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 of unique elements, return the minimum element of this array.

You must write an algorithm that runs in O(log n) time.

Example 1:

**Input:** nums = [3,4,5,1,2]
**Output:** 1
**Explanation:** The original array was [1,2,3,4,5] rotated 3 times.

Example 2:

**Input:** nums = [4,5,6,7,0,1,2]
**Output:** 0
**Explanation:** The original array was [0,1,2,4,5,6,7] and it was rotated 4 times.

Example 3:

**Input:** nums = [11,13,15,17]
**Output:** 11
**Explanation:** The original array was [11,13,15,17] and it was rotated 4 times. 

Constraints:

  • n == nums.length

  • 1 <= n <= 5000

  • -5000 <= nums[i] <= 5000

  • All the integers of nums are unique.

  • nums is sorted and rotated between 1 and n times.

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