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 will return whether version is bad. Implement a function to find the first bad version. You should minimize the number of calls to the API.
Example:
Given n = 5, and version = 4 is the first bad version.
call isBadVersion(3) -> false
call isBadVersion(5) -> true
call isBadVersion(4) -> true
Then 4 is the first bad version.
Solution
这是binary serach的变形，这个数组的前半分都是false,后部分都是true，这个题转化为更通俗的说法就是找到第一个是ture的索引。
# The isBadVersion API is already defined for you.
# @param version, an integer
# @return a bool
# def isBadVersion(version):
class Solution:
def firstBadVersion(self, n):
"""
:type n: int
:rtype: int
"""
left = 1
right = n
while (left < right):
mid = (left + right ) // 2
if isBadVersion(mid):
right =mid
else:
left = mid + 1
return left
