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Problem

Given an array of 4 digits, return the largest 24 hour time that can be made.

The smallest 24 hour time is 00:00, and the largest is 23:59. Starting from 00:00, a time is larger if more time has elapsed since midnight.

Return the answer as a string of length 5. If no valid time can be made, return an empty string.

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Problem

Given a root node reference of a BST and a key, delete the node with the given key in the BST. Return the root node reference (possibly updated) of the BST.

Basically, the deletion can be divided into two stages:

  1. Search for a node to remove.
  2. If the node is found, delete the node.

Note: Time complexity should be O(height of tree).

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Problem

Given a non-empty array of unique positive integers A, consider the following graph:

  • There are A.length nodes, labelled A[0] to A[A.length - 1];
  • There is an edge between A[i] and A[j] if and only if A[i] and A[j] share a common factor greater than 1.

Return the size of the largest connected component in the graph.

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Problem

Given an array of integers A, We need to sort the array performing a series of pancake flips.

In one pancake flip we do the following steps:

  • Choose an integer k where 0 <= k < A.length.
  • Reverse the sub-array A[0...k].

For example, if A = [3,2,1,4] and we performed a pancake flip choosing k = 2, we reverse the sub-array [3,2,1], so A = [**1,2,3**,4] after the pancake flip at k = 2.

Return an array of the k-values of the pancake flips that should be performed in order to sort A. Any valid answer that sorts the array within 10 * A.length flips will be judged as correct.

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Problem

Given the API rand7 which generates a uniform random integer in the range 1 to 7, write a function rand10 which generates a uniform random integer in the range 1 to 10. You can only call the API rand7 and you shouldn’t call any other API. Please don’t use the system’s Math.random().

Notice that Each test case has one argument n, the number of times that your implemented function rand10 will be called while testing.

Follow up:

  1. What is the expected value for the number of calls to rand7() function?
  2. Could you minimize the number of calls to rand7()?
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Problem

Given a set of intervals, for each of the interval i, check if there exists an interval j whose start point is bigger than or equal to the end point of the interval i, which can be called that j is on the “right” of i.

For any interval i, you need to store the minimum interval j’s index, which means that the interval j has the minimum start point to build the “right” relationship for interval i. If the interval j doesn’t exist, store -1 for the interval i. Finally, you need output the stored value of each interval as an array.

Note:

  1. You may assume the interval’s end point is always bigger than its start point.
  2. You may assume none of these intervals have the same start point.
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Problem

Given a list of non-overlapping axis-aligned rectangles rects, write a function pick which randomly and uniformily picks an integer point in the space covered by the rectangles.

Note:

  1. An integer point is a point that has integer coordinates.
  2. A point on the perimeter of a rectangle is included in the space covered by the rectangles.
  3. ith rectangle = rects[i] = [x1,y1,x2,y2], where [x1, y1] are the integer coordinates of the bottom-left corner, and [x2, y2] are the integer coordinates of the top-right corner.
  4. length and width of each rectangle does not exceed 2000.
  5. 1 <= rects.length <= 100
  6. pick return a point as an array of integer coordinates [p_x, p_y]
  7. pick is called at most 10000 times.
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