Perl Weekly Challenge

HEADLINES

With great pleasure, I would like to announce our inhouse Raku reviewer, Laurent Rosenfeld, is back after a short break. Based on the past record, I am sure, we would soon have all pending Raku reviews done one-by-one. I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate him on winning local electoral campaign.

I know I have been neglecting the Meet The Champion series interviews since January 2020. I finally got the time to get that sorted. Thanks to the prompt actions by Wanderdoc and Saif Ahmed, it is now looking much better.

As COVID-19 taking over much of our time and attention, Team PWC are doing great and actively participating the weekly challenges. The best part is they keep improving the solution regularly. Being the owner of the central repository, I get to see the first hand changes. If you are also interested in tracking the changes then you can also watch the progress of the central repository. While you are there, why not give it a star as well.

Last but not the least, I woud like to thank each and every member for their support and encouragement.

RECAP

Quick recap of the “Perl Weekly Challenge - 053” by Mohammad S Anwar.

PERL REVIEW

Please checkout Perl solutions review of the “Perl Weekly Challenge - 051” by Ryan Thompson.

If you missed any past reviews then please checkout the collection.

RAKU REVIEW

Please checkout Raku solutions review of the “Perl Weekly Challenge - 052” by Laurent Rosenfeld.

If you missed any past reviews then please checkout the collection.

CHART

Please take a look at the charts showing interesting data.

I would like to thank every member of the team for their valuable suggestions. Please do share your experience with us.

NEW MEMBERS

Shahed Nooshmand joined the Team PWC last week and shared Raku one-liner solutions to The Weekly Challenge - 053.

Please find out How to contribute?, if you have any doubts.

Please give it a try to an excellent tool EZPWC created by respected member Saif Ahmed of Team PWC.

GUESTS

Dave Jacoby shared solutions to Task #1 and Task #2 in Node.

Dave Jacoby shared solutions to Task #1 and Task #2 in Rust.

Lubos Kolouch shared solutions to Task #1 and Task #2 in Python.

Richard Park shared solutions to Task #1 and Task #2 in APL.

User Person shared solutions to Task #1 and Task #2 in Python.

Please find out past solutions by respected guests. Please do share your creative solutions in other languages.

TASK #1

kth Permutation Sequence

Write a script to accept two integers n (>=1) and k (>=1). It should print the kth permutation of n integers. For more information, please follow the wiki page.

For example, n=3 and k=4, the possible permutation sequences are listed below:

The script should print the 4th permutation sequence 231.

TASK #2

Collatz Conjecture

Contributed by Ryan Thompson

It is thought that the following sequence will always reach 1:

$n = $n / 2 when $n is even
$n = 3*$n + 1 when $n is odd

For example, if we start at 23, we get the following sequence:

23 → 70 → 35 → 106 → 53 → 160 → 80 → 40 → 20 → 10 → 5 → 16 → 8 → 4 → 2 → 1

Write a function that finds the Collatz sequence for any positive integer. Notice how the sequence itself may go far above the original starting number.

Extra Credit

Have your script calculate the sequence length for all starting numbers up to 1000000 (1e6), and output the starting number and sequence length for the longest 20 sequences.

Last date to submit the solution 23:59 (UK Time) Sunday 5th April 2020.