LeetCode 470, Medium. Topics: Math, Rejection Sampling, Randomized, Probability and Statistics. View on LeetCode.
Generate this problem as a practice environment: tested reference solution, 19 parametrized pytest cases, and a playground notebook:
Problem
Given the API rand7() that generates a uniform random integer in the range [1, 7], write a function rand10() that generates a uniform random integer in the range [1, 10]. You can only call the API rand7(), and you shouldn’t call any other API. Please do not use a language’s built-in random API.
Each test case will have one internal argument n, the number of times that your implemented function rand10() will be called while testing. Note that this is not an argument passed to rand10().
Examples
Constraints
Follow up:
- What is the expected value for the number of calls to
rand7() function?
- Could you minimize the number of calls to
rand7()?
Solution
Reference implementation from solution.py on GitHub, full suite in test_solution.py:
Complexity
Last modified on September 7, 2026