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Problem: Search in Rotated Sorted Array

Discover how to perform a binary search on a rotated sorted array to locate a target element efficiently. This lesson guides you through identifying the sorted half of the array and adjusting your search approach to maintain logarithmic time complexity.

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. ...