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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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Example 1:

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\nInput: arr = [1,2,2,6,6,6,6,7,10]\nOutput: 6\n
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Example 2:

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\nInput: arr = [1,1]\nOutput: 1\n
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