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Problem: Search in Rotated Sorted Array

Understand how to implement a binary search algorithm tailored for rotated sorted arrays in C#. This lesson guides you through identifying sorted halves to efficiently locate a target value or return -1 if absent, ensuring logarithmic time complexity and constant space usage.

Statement

You are given an integer array nums that was originally sorted in ascending order with all distinct values. This array may have been left rotated at some unknown pivot index k, transforming it into [nums[k], nums[k+1], ..., nums[n-1], nums[0], nums[1], ..., nums[k-1]] (using 00-based indexing). If no rotation was applied, the array remains in its original sorted order.

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

Your solution must achieve O(logn)O(\log n) runtime complexity.

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