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Problem: Search Insert Position

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15 min
Explore how to implement a modified binary search to identify the correct index for a target value in a sorted array. Understand how to return the existing index or the insertion point to maintain order, ensuring your solution runs in logarithmic time complexity.

Statement

Given a sorted array of distinct integers, nums, and an integer, target, return the index of target if it exists in the array.
If the target is not present, return the index where it should be inserted to maintain the sorted order.

Your algorithm must run in the O(logn)O(\log n) time.

Constraints:

  • 11 \leq nums.length 103\leq 10^3

  • 104-10^4 \leq nums[i] 104\leq 10^4

  • nums contains distinct values sorted in ascending order.

  • 104-10^4 \leq target 104\leq 10^4

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Problem: Search Insert Position

Easy
15 min
Explore how to implement a modified binary search to identify the correct index for a target value in a sorted array. Understand how to return the existing index or the insertion point to maintain order, ensuring your solution runs in logarithmic time complexity.

Statement

Given a sorted array of distinct integers, nums, and an integer, target, return the index of target if it exists in the array.
If the target is not present, return the index where it should be inserted to maintain the sorted order.

Your algorithm must run in the O(logn)O(\log n) time.

Constraints:

  • 11 \leq nums.length 103\leq 10^3

  • 104-10^4 \leq nums[i] 104\leq 10^4

  • nums contains distinct values sorted in ascending order.

  • 104-10^4 \leq target 104\leq 10^4