lintcode 74 First Bad Version

The code base version is an integer start from 1 to n. One day, someone committed a bad version in the code case, so it caused this version and the following versions are all failed in the unit tests. Find the first bad version.

You can call isBadVersion to help you determine which version is the first bad one. The details interface can be found in the code‘s annotation part.

Notice

Please read the annotation in code area to get the correct way to call isBadVersion in different language. For example, Java isSVNRepo.isBadVersion(v)

Example

Given n = 5:

isBadVersion(3) -> false
isBadVersion(5) -> true
isBadVersion(4) -> true

Here we are 100% sure that the 4th version is the first bad version.

分析：

代码库的版本号是从 1 到 n 的整数。某一天，有人提交了错误版本的代码，因此造成自身及之后版本的代码在单元测试中均出错。请找出第一个错误的版本号。

你可以通过 isBadVersion 的接口来判断版本号 version 是否在单元测试中出错。

给出 n=5

调用isBadVersion(3)，得到false

调用isBadVersion(5)，得到true

调用isBadVersion(4)，得到true

此时我们可以断定4是第一个错误的版本号

/**
 * public class SVNRepo {
 *     public static boolean isBadVersion(int k);
 * }
 * you can use SVNRepo.isBadVersion(k) to judge whether
 * the kth code version is bad or not.
*/
class Solution {
    /**
     * @param n: An integers.
     * @return: An integer which is the first bad version.
     */
    public int findFirstBadVersion(int n) {
        int start = 0, end  = n;
        while (start + 1 < end) {
            int mid = start + (end - start) / 2;
            if (SVNRepo.isBadVersion(mid)) {
                end = mid;
            } else {
                start = mid;
            }
        }

        if (SVNRepo.isBadVersion(start)) {
            return start;
        }
        return end;
    }
}