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Leetcode 1287. Element Appearing More Than 25% In Sorted Array

Given a non-decreasing integer array that contains exactly one value occurring in more than 25% of elements, return that value. The sorted order lets you identify this frequent element efficiently by inspecting elements at strategic positions rather than scanning all counts.

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Early April, 2026

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Given an integer array sorted in non-decreasing order, there is exactly one integer in the array that occurs more than 25% of the time, return that integer

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