The Weekly Challenge

10. TASK #2: Square-free Integer

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Blogs with Creative Title

1. Fibonacci Square with Raku and Perl by Arne Sommer.

2. TWC 149: Limited Fibs, and Bases of Unusual Size by Bruce Gray.

3. When We Add Up Each Part of the Puzzle, They’re All Lies by Colin Crain.

4. That Big Ol’ Square’ll be Just Perfect by Colin Crain.

5. Weekly Challenge #149 Task 2: The Terror of the Largest Square by Dave Jacoby

6. The Weekly Challenge 149: Fibonacci Squares by Roger Bell_West.

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TASK #1 › Fibonacci Words

Submitted by: Mohammad S Anwar

You are given two strings having same number of digits, $a and $b.

Write a script to generate Fibonacci Words by concatenation of the previous two strings. Finally print 51st digit of the first term having at least 51 digits.

Example:

    Input: $a = '1234' $b = '5678'
    Output: 7

    Fibonacci Words:

    '1234'
    '5678'
    '12345678'
    '567812345678'
    '12345678567812345678'
    '56781234567812345678567812345678'
    '1234567856781234567856781234567812345678567812345678'

    The 51st digit in the first term having at least 51 digits '1234567856781234567856781234567812345678567812345678' is 7.

TASK #2 › Square-free Integer

Submitted by: Mohammad S Anwar

Write a script to generate all square-free integers <= 500.

In mathematics, a square-free integer (or squarefree integer) is an integer which is divisible by no perfect square other than 1. That is, its prime factorization has exactly one factor for each prime that appears in it. For example, 10 = 2 ⋅ 5 is square-free, but 18 = 2 ⋅ 3 ⋅ 3 is not, because 18 is divisible by 9 = 3**2.

Example

The smallest positive square-free integers are
    1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 17, 19, 21, 22, 23, 26, 29, 30, ...

Last date to submit the solution 23:59 (UK Time) Sunday 6th February 2022.