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LeetCode 1095, Hard. Topics: Array, Binary Search, Interactive. View on LeetCode. Generate this problem as a practice environment: tested reference solution, 16 parametrized pytest cases, and a playground notebook:

Problem

(This problem is an interactive problem.) You may recall that an array arr is a mountain array if and only if:
  • arr.length >= 3
  • There exists some i with 0 < i < arr.length - 1 such that:
    • arr[0] < arr[1] < ... < arr[i - 1] < arr[i]
    • arr[i] > arr[i + 1] > ... > arr[arr.length - 1]
Given a mountain array mountainArr, return the minimum index such that mountainArr.get(index) == target. If such an index does not exist, return -1. You cannot access the mountain array directly. You may only access the array using a MountainArray interface:
  • MountainArray.get(k) returns the element of the array at index k (0-indexed).
  • MountainArray.length() returns the length of the array.
Submissions making more than 100 calls to MountainArray.get will be judged Wrong Answer.

Examples

Constraints

  • 3 <= mountainArr.length() <= 10^4
  • 0 <= target <= 10^9
  • 0 <= mountainArr.get(index) <= 10^9

Solution

Reference implementation from solution.py on GitHub, full suite in test_solution.py:

Complexity

Tags

NeetCode 250, NeetCode All.
Last modified on August 25, 2026