Description

First Bad Version - LeetCode

You are a product manager and currently leading a team to develop a new product. Unfortunately, the latest version of your product fails the quality check. Since each version is developed based on the previous version, all the versions after a bad version are also bad.

Suppose you have n versions [1, 2, ..., n] and you want to find out the first bad one, which causes all the following ones to be bad.

You are given an API bool isBadVersion(version) which returns whether version is bad. Implement a function to find the first bad version. You should minimize the number of calls to the API.

Example 1:

Input: n = 5, bad = 4
Output: 4
Explanation:
call isBadVersion(3) -> false
call isBadVersion(5) -> true
call isBadVersion(4) -> true
Then 4 is the first bad version.

Example 2:

Input: n = 1, bad = 1
Output: 1

Constraints:

Solution

public int firstBadVersion(int n) {
        if (isBadVersion(1)) return 1;
        
        int pivot, left = 1, right = n;
        while (left <= right) {
            pivot = left + (right - left) / 2;
            if (isBadVersion(pivot)) right = pivot - 1;
            if (!isBadVersion(pivot)) {
                if (isBadVersion(pivot + 1)) {
                    return pivot + 1;
                }
                left = pivot + 1;
            }
        }
        return 0;
    }
public int firstBadVersion2(int n) {
        int left = 1, right = n, pivot;
        while (left < right) {
            pivot = left + (right - left) / 2;
						
						// left 값이 first bad version으로 가는 게 목표이기 때문에 pivot + 1
            if (!isBadVersion(pivot)) left = pivot + 1;

            else right = pivot; // right 값이 left보다 적어질 수 있으므로 pivot
        }

        return left;
    }