Code RoomMinimum in rotated array
MediumPrep Room Coding #1135

Minimum in rotated array

CodingAlgorithms & data structuresMid–Senior~18 min

An ascending array of distinct integers was rotated at an unknown pivot. Given the rotated array nums, return its minimum element in O(log n) time. Array length up to 5000; the array may not be rotated at all.

Implement
find_min_rotated(nums: list[int]) → int
Examples
in[[3,4,5,1,2]]out1
What a strong answer looks like

State your approach and its time/space complexity out loud before you optimize. Handle the edge cases (empty input, duplicates, overflow), and say why you chose this over the brute force. Green tests are the floor, not the grade.

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InputExpectedGot
[[3,4,5,1,2]]1not run yetsample