0154. Find Minimum in Rotated Sorted Array II

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

Description

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

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