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Problem: Find Peak Element

Understand how to identify a peak element in an array where a peak is greater than its neighbors. Explore using binary search to efficiently locate any peak in O(log n) time, with detailed explanation and implementation steps.

Statement

A peak element in an array is one that is strictly greater than both of its neighbors.

Given a 00-indexed integer array nums, return the index of any peak element.

Note: Elements at the boundaries of the array are compared against -\infty. That is, nums[-1] and nums[n] are both treated as -\infty, where n is the length of nums. This means an element can be considered a peak if it only needs to be greater than its single existing neighbor at the edges. Additionally, no two adjacent elements in nums are equal. You must write an algorithm that runs in O(logn)O(\log n) time.

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