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Issue #529 - 2021-09-13 - KöMaL for the math enthusiasts
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Hi there! A long long time ago, when I was in high school, I participated in the annual competition of KöMaL, the Mathematical and Physical Journal for High Schools. (Look for the little UK flag for the English version). Back then we sent in the solution by snail-mail and we only had to write our name to be identified. However people with very common names were asked to include a 3-digit number between their names. There was no verification that two people with the exact same name did not pick the same number, but the chances were slim. Because my name is way too common in Hungary I picked the number 529 because it is 23^2. Funnily, if you squint it also resembles the initials of my name: SzG Anyway, if you or your kids like math, informatics, or physics, I'd recommend it! Enjoy your week! Gabor Szabo |
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by Mark Gardner CPAN has a rich history of lighter-weight OO modules to meet many different needs. If you can live with their trade-offs, they're worth investigating instead of rolling your own layer over Perl's OO. Here are a few: Class::Struct, Class::Accessor, Class::Tiny, Object::Tiny, and more. | 
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) If you’re looking for some diversion or something to do some exercising (e.g. learning some Raku), Flavio suggests you giving Advent of Code a try. |
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) ImageMagick is an amazing set of command-line tools for doing image manipulation. |
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by Makoto Nozaki This year Rosheen Naeem was mentored by Stéphane Gigandet and worked on the Open Food Facts project. Which is looking for more contributors knowing Perl and people who like to eat. | 
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The Weekly Challenge
The Weekly Challenge by Mohammad Anwar will help you step out of your comfort-zone. You can even win prize money of $50 Amazon voucher by participating in the weekly challenge. We pick one winner at the end of the month from among all of the contributors during the month. The monthly prize is kindly sponsored by Peter Sergeant of PerlCareers.
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by Mohammad Sajid Anwar (MANWAR) Welcome to a new week with a couple of fun tasks "Odd Number" and "Binary Search Tree". If you are new to the weekly challenge then why not join us and have fun every week. For more information, please read the FAQ. | 
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by Mohammad Sajid Anwar (MANWAR) Enjoy a quick recap of last week's contributions by Team PWC dealing with the "Root Distance" and "Add Linked Lists" tasks in Perl and Raku. You will find plenty of solutions to keep you busy. |
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by Abigail Abigail shared his magic as ever with bare minimum code. Thanks for your contribution. |
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by Abigail Abigail ability to make difficult task looks simple is amazing. Plenty to learn from his contribution. |
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by Arne Sommer Arne has been great promoter of Raku language. In this week blog, he shared cool Raku magic once again. Thanks for sharing the knowledge. |
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by Cheok-Yin Fung Cheok-Yin shared the brilliant use of Object::Pad. I am impressed by the design and clarity. Keep it up. |
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by Dave Jacoby (JACOBY) Dave using his nicely structured Node package to make the solution looks so easy. Well done. Thanks for sharing. | 
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) Flavio continued his fun with Raku, There are plenty to learn every week by just reading his blog. You don't want to miss the fun ride. |
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) Flavio being very kind in his observation about the task. Thanks for sharing the knowledge with us every week. |
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by James Smith I loved the code re-use in this week contributions. It shows power of Perl. Thanks for sharing the knowledge. |
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by Luca Ferrari Luca being a Raku lover, once again shared cool use of Raku class. Nice introduction to Raku class if you are new to Raku. Thanks for sharing. |
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by W Luis Mochan Full credit goes to Luis for the extra efforts he put in building tree structure. I admire his hard work. |
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by Roger Bell West (FIREDRAKE) Roger's love for Rust is all over in this week blog. Anyone interested in Rust, should definitely take a look. Keep up the great work. |
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by Simon Green I am a big fan of Simon style of blogging. He has the ability to say so much with few words. Keep it up. |
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