The Weekly Challenge

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Welcome to the Week #309 of The Weekly Challenge.

Once again, the guest contributions is giving tough fight to regular contributions. It feels great to see such a strong support for so many guest languages. I am still waiting for the first 100+ contributions week of new year 2025. I am confident, it would happen very soon.

Last 5 weeks mainstream contribution stats. Thank you Team PWC for your support and encouragements.


`Week`	`Perl`	`Raku`	`Blog`
`304`	40	21	14
`305`	44	21	21
`306`	39	18	10
`307`	44	20	12
`308`	44	21	16

Last 5 weeks guest contribution stats. Thank you each and every guest contributors for your time and efforts.


`Week`	`Guests`	`Contributions`	`Languages`
`304`	9	49	21
`305`	9	46	17
`306`	9	40	15
`307`	15	61	23
`308`	13	54	20

TOP 10 Guest Languages

Do you see your favourite language in the Top #10? If not then why not contribute regularly and make it to the top.

 1. Python     (3199)
 2. Rust       (848)
 3. Ruby       (771)
 4. Haskell    (747)
 5. Lua        (688)
 6. C          (590)
 7. C++        (589)
 8. JavaScript (534)
 9. Go         (458)
10. BQN        (414)

Blogs with Creative Title

1. Exclusive or Common by Arne Sommer.

2. Common Encodings by Jorg Sommrey.

3. lazyness by Luca Ferrari.

4. Avoid Common Traps, and Reduce the XOR by Matthias Muth.

5. AND and XOR by Peter Campbell Smith.

6. Count Xor, ha ha ha by Roger Bell_West.

7. Counting the XOR by Simon Green.

GitHub Repository Stats

1. Commits: 42,319 (`+94`)

2. Pull Requests: 11,570 (`+36`)

3. Contributors: 257

4. Fork: 324 (`+1`)

5. Stars: 186 (`+1`)

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RECAP

Quick recap of The Weekly Challenge - 308 by Mohammad Sajid Anwar.

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CHART

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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 check out the guest contributions for the Week #308.

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

Task 1: Min Gap

Submitted by: Mohammad Sajid Anwar

You are given an array of integers, @ints, increasing order.

Write a script to return the element before which you find the smallest gap.

Example 1

Input: @ints = (2, 8, 10, 11, 15)
Output: 11

 8 - 2  => 6
10 - 8  => 2
11 - 10 => 1
15 - 11 => 4

11 is where we found the min gap.

Example 2

Input: @ints = (1, 5, 6, 7, 14)
Output: 6

 5 - 1 => 4
 6 - 5 => 1
 7 - 6 => 1
14 - 7 => 7

6 and 7 where we found the min gap, so we pick the first instance.

Example 3

Input: @ints = (8, 20, 25, 28)
Output: 28

 8 - 20 => 14
25 - 20 => 5
28 - 25 => 3

28 is where we found the min gap.

Task 2: Min Diff

Submitted by: Mohammad Sajid Anwar

You are given an array of integers, @ints.

Write a script to find the minimum difference between any two elements.

Example 1

Input: @ints = (1, 5, 8, 9)
Output: 1

1, 5 => 5 - 1 => 4
1, 8 => 8 - 1 => 7
1, 9 => 9 - 1 => 8
5, 8 => 8 - 5 => 3
5, 9 => 9 - 5 => 4
8, 9 => 9 - 8 => 1

Example 2

Input: @ints = (9, 4, 1, 7)
Output: 2

9, 4 => 9 - 4 => 5
9, 1 => 9 - 1 => 8
9, 7 => 9 - 7 => 2
4, 1 => 4 - 1 => 3
4, 7 => 7 - 4 => 3
1, 7 => 7 - 1 => 6

Last date to submit the solution 23:59 (UK Time) Sunday 23^rd February 2025.