There is an integer array nums sorted in ascending order (with distinct values).

Prior to being passed to your function, nums is possibly rotated at an unknown pivot index k (1 <= k < nums.length) such that the resulting array is [nums[k], nums[k+1], ..., nums[n-1], nums[0], nums[1], ..., nums[k-1]] (0-indexed). For example, [0,1,2,4,5,6,7] might be rotated at pivot index 3 and become [4,5,6,7,0,1,2].

Given the array nums after the possible rotation and an integer target, return the index of target if it is in nums, or -1 if it is not in nums.

You must write an algorithm with O(log n) runtime complexity.

 

Example 1:

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

Example 2:

Input: nums = [4,5,6,7,0,1,2], target = 3
Output: -1

Example 3:

Input: nums = [1], target = 0
Output: -1

 

Constraints:

  • 1 <= nums.length <= 5000
  • -104 <= nums[i] <= 104
  • All values of nums are unique.
  • nums is an ascending array that is possibly rotated.
  • -104 <= target <= 104




 class Solution:

    def intersection(self, nums, left, right):
        if nums[right] > nums[left]:
            return 0

        while left <= right:
            mid = left + (right-left)//2

            if nums[mid] > nums[mid+1]:
                 return mid + 1
            else:
                if nums[mid] < nums[left]:
                    right = mid - 1
                else:
                    left = mid + 1

    def binary_search(self, nums, target, left, right):

        while left <= right:

            mid = left + (right-left)//2
            if nums[mid] ==  target:
                return mid
            elif nums[mid] > target:
                right = mid - 1
            else:
                left = mid + 1

        return -1       
    def search(self, nums: List[int], target: int) -> int:
        n = len(nums)
        if n == 1:
            return 0 if nums[0] == target else -1

        ins_point = self.intersection(nums, 0, n-1)

        if target == nums[0]:
            return 0

        if ins_point == 0:
            return self.binary_search(nums, target, 0, n-1 )
        elif target > nums[0]:
            return self.binary_search(nums, target, 0, ins_point)
        else:
            return self.binary_search(nums, target, ins_point, n-1)

Random Note


From python 3.7 dict guarantees that order will be kept as they inserted, and popitem will use LIFO order but we need FIFO type system. so we need OrderedDict which have popIten(last = T/F) for this req. One thing, next(iter(dict)) will return the first key of the dict