First Bad Version

Try to solve the First Bad Version problem.

Statement

The latest version of a software product has failed the quality check. Because each version builds on the previous one, all versions developed after a bad version are also considered bad. You are given n versions identified by integers [1,2,3,,n][1, 2,3, \dots, n], and an API function isBadVersion(version) that returns TRUE if a given version is bad.

Your task is to find the first bad version that causes all subsequent versions to fail while minimizing the number of API calls.

Constraints:

  • 11 \leq first bad version \leq n 105\leq 10^5

Examples

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