I was asked this question in the interview round of a company: Given an array of integers of size atleast 3, such that a[0]>=a[1].... And a[n-2]<=a[n-1] such that it gives a v shape (i.e. first it’s decreasing then its increasing) find the minimum element in the array.

The interviewer asked to implement in O(log n) , if all the elements would have been distinct then I coded the approach using binary search but could not come up with a log n solution in case of duplicates. I was asked to code it using recursion also. Can someone help me out?