LeetCode 1095, Hard. Topics: Array, Binary Search, Interactive. View on LeetCode.
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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
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