The Weekly Challenge

HEADLINES

Welcome to the special edition of Week #123. Why special? Well, the number 123 is special and magic.

I am glad, we did it again, we crossed the magic number 100+ contributions one more time. Thank you Team PWC. What a shame, I couldn’t contribute last week. It was really hectic week for me. I am going to make it up this week, I promise.

Lucas Ransan seems like on a mission. He, one more time introduced another new laugage, Coconut and shared the solutions.

Guest contributions is not behind the regular contributions, thanks to the support and encouragement of Team PWC. We crossed 50+ guest contributions. The ultimate target is go past 100 at least once. The closed we went was 92 in the Week #120. I am hopefull. There are few who can make it possible, you know who I am talking about. No pressure though :-).

Welcome back Andinus, our Raku Guru, after a short break and thanks for sharing your solutions with us. He also shared solution in C. We got bonus as well as he wrote a nice blog about it.

I would also like to thank Bruce Gray for sharing profile photo with us and also for being regular contributors to the weekly challenge now. I appreciate your participation and contributions in Perl & Raku.

What a pleasant surprise to have Markus Holzer back in action. Technically speaking, he always shared his Raku magic on Twitter. But this time he favoured us and shared the code with pull request. I am a big fan of him and admire his Raku knowledge. Reading his post on Twitter about the weekly task is always fun and learning experience for me.

I would like to thank every member of Team PWC for being regular contributors. A gentle reminder don’t feel pressured tackling both tasks if you are short of free time. You can always maintain the continuity by doing the easy one i.e. Task #1. I know it applies to me as well. I am sorry once again.

Let us share some interesting stats from the GitHub repository.

1. Commits: 18,752 (+169)

2. Pull Requests: 4,596 (+45)

3. Contributors: 171

4. Fork: 216

5. Stars: 97

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

Our solo sponsor Pete Sergeant has been a great support to keep us motivated. We are lucky that he agreed to continue the journey with us in the year 2021. I would like to personally thank Pete and his entire team for their generosity. It would be great if we could add few more to sponsor the prize money so that we could go back and declare weekly champions as we have done in the past. I hope and wish this will become possible in 2021. The amount doesn’t have to be huge. However, it would be nice to show off bunch of supporters. If an organisation comes forward and supports us then that would be the ultimate achievement.

RECAP

Quick recap of “The Weekly Challenge - 122 by Mohammad S Anwar.

PERL REVIEW

Please check out Perl solutions review of the “The Weekly Challenge - 120” by Colin Crain.

If you missed any past reviews then please check out the collection.

RAKU REVIEW

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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

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

Please try the excellent tool EZPWC created by respected member Saif Ahmed of Team PWC.

GUESTS

Please checkout the guest contributions for the Week #121.

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

TASK #1 › Ugly Numbers

Submitted by: Mohammad S Anwar

You are given an integer $n >= 1.

Write a script to find the $n^th element of Ugly Numbers.

Ugly numbers are those number whose prime factors are 2, 3 or 5. For example, the first 10 Ugly Numbers are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12.

Example

Input: $n = 7
Output: 8

Input: $n = 10
Output: 12

TASK #2 › Square Points

Submitted by: Mohammad S Anwar

You are given coordinates of four points i.e. (x1, y1), (x2, y2), (x3, y3) and (x4, y4).

Write a script to find out if the given four points form a square.

Example

Input: x1 = 10, y1 = 20
       x2 = 20, y2 = 20
       x3 = 20, y3 = 10
       x4 = 10, y4 = 10
Output: 1 as the given coordinates form a square.

Input: x1 = 12, y1 = 24
       x2 = 16, y2 = 10
       x3 = 20, y3 = 12
       x4 = 18, y4 = 16
Output: 0 as the given coordinates doesn't form a square.

Last date to submit the solution 23:59 (UK Time) Sunday 1st August 2021.