In less-than-linear time, find the duplicate in a sorted array

Question

Today, an interviewer asked me this question. My immediate response was that we could simply do a linear search, comparing the current element with the previous element in t

Answer 1

#include 
using namespace std;

int find_only_repeating_element(int arr[] , int n){
int low = 0;
int high = n-1;
while(low <= high){
    int mid = low + (high - low)/2;
    if(arr[mid] == arr[mid + 1] || arr[mid] == arr[mid - 1]){
        return arr[mid];
    }
    if(arr[mid] < mid + 1){
        high = mid - 2;
    }else{
        low = mid + 1;
    }
   }
   return -1;
}

int main(int argc, char const *argv[])
{
int n , *arr;
cin >> n;
arr = new int[n];
for(int i = 0 ; i < n ; i++){
    cin >> arr[i];
}
    cout << find_only_repeating_element(arr , n) << endl;
    return 0;
}