Binary Search

IF
AlgoAxiomStaff Engineers
JSTS
Easy20 mins

Given a sorted array of integers nums in ascending order and an integer target, write a function to search target in nums. If target exists, return its index. Otherwise, return -1.

You must write an algorithm with O(log n) runtime complexity.

Examples

Example 1:

Input: nums = [-1, 0, 3, 5, 9, 12], target = 9

Output: 4

Explanation: 9 exists in nums and its index is 4.

Example 2:

Input: nums = [-1, 0, 3, 5, 9, 12], target = 2

Output: -1

Explanation: 2 does not exist in nums so return -1.

Constraints

  • 1 <= nums.length <= 10^4
  • -10^4 < nums[i], target < 10^4
  • All integers in nums are unique
  • nums is sorted in ascending order
Source: Modified Binary Search pattern — AlgoAxiom
JavaScript
Test Case 1
root = [1, 2, 3]
Test Case 2
root = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
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