Find any position of a target number in a sorted array. Return -1 if target does not exist.

Example
Given [1, 2, 2, 4, 5, 5].

For target = 2, return 1 or 2.

For target = 5, return 4 or 5.

For target = 6, return -1.
    public int findPosition(int[] nums, int target) {
        if (nums == null || nums.length == 0) {
            return -1;
        }

        int start = 0;
        int end = nums.length - 1;

        while (start + 1 < end) {
            int mid = start + (end - start) /2;
            if (nums[mid] == target) {
                return mid;
            }
            if (nums[mid] < target) {
                start = mid;
            } else {
                end = mid;
            }
        }

        if (nums[start] == target) {
            return start;
        }
        if (nums[end] == target) {
            return end;
        }
        return -1;
    }

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