The Weekly Challenge

09. TASK #1: Ordinal Number Spelling

10. TASK #2: Unicode Sparkline

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Welcome to Week #179 of the weekly challenge.

Let us all welcome new member, Solathian, an experienced Perl hacker. Thank you for the first solution in Perl.

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Task 1: Ordinal Number Spelling

Submitted by: Mohammad S Anwar

You are given a positive number, $n.

Write a script to spell the ordinal number.

For example,

11 => eleventh
62 => sixty-second
99 => ninety-ninth

Task 2: Unicode Sparkline

Submitted by: Mohammad S Anwar

You are given a list of positive numbers, @n.

Write a script to print sparkline in Unicode for the given list of numbers.

Last date to submit the solution 23:59 (UK Time) Sunday 28th August 2022.