# 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](https://leetcode.com/problems/find-minimum-in-rotated-sorted-array/description/), but `nums` may contain **duplicates**. Would this affect the runtime complexity? How and why?

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