153. Find Minimum in Rotated Sorted Array

Suppose an array sorted in ascending order 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.

Example 1:

Input: [3,4,5,1,2] 
Output: 1

Example 2:

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

难度：medium

题目：假设一个按升序排序的数组在某个未知的轴上旋转。假定数组中没有重复元素。

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Runtime: 0 ms, faster than 100.00% of Java online submissions for Find Minimum in Rotated Sorted Array.
Memory Usage: 37.6 MB, less than 100.00% of Java online submissions for Find Minimum in Rotated Sorted Array.

class Solution {
    public int findMin(int[] nums) {
        return findMin(nums, 0, nums.length - 1);
    }
    
    public int findMin(int[] nums, int left, int right) {
        int mid = left + (right - left) / 2;
        // 升序
        if (nums[left] <= nums[mid] && nums[mid] <= nums[right]) {
            return nums[left];
        }
        // 降序
        if (nums[left] >= nums[mid] && nums[mid] >= nums[right]) {
            return nums[right];
        }
        // 升序占大降序占小
        if (nums[left] >= nums[mid]) {
            return findMin(nums, left, mid);
        } 
        // 升序占小降序占大
        return findMin(nums, mid, right);
    }
}