LeetCode 0278. First Bad Version Solution in Java, Python, C++, JavaScript, Go & Rust | Explanation + Code

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0278. First Bad Version

Description

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:

  • 1 <= bad <= n <= 231 - 1

Solutions

Solution 1: Binary Search

We define the left boundary of the binary search as l = 1 and the right boundary as r = n.

While l < r, we calculate the middle position mid = \left\lfloor l + r2 \right\rfloor, then call the isBadVersion(mid) API. If it returns true, it means the first bad version is between [l, mid], so we set r = mid; otherwise, the first bad version is between [mid + 1, r], so we set l = mid + 1.

Finally, we return l.

The time complexity is O(log n), and the space complexity is O(1).

PythonJavaC++GoTypeScriptRustJavaScript
# The isBadVersion API is already defined for you. # def isBadVersion(version: int) -> bool: class Solution: def firstBadVersion(self, n: int) -> int: l, r = 1, n while l < r: mid = (l + r) >> 1 if isBadVersion(mid): r = mid else: l = mid + 1 return l(code-box)

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