Perl Weekly Challenge 386‘s tasks are “Reverse Base” and “Rational Numbers”.
I figured, since both tasks are all about Algebra, we should listen to some Tom Lehrer (lyrics & sheet music).
Perl Weekly Challenge: We’re Talkin’ Algebra
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Perl Weekly Challenge: Parenthetically Uncommon
Perl Weekly Challenge 385‘s tasks are “Uncommon Words” and “Outermost Parentheses”.
I thought I remembered one of my favored artists doing a song featuring “uncommon”, and the first one that popped up in my music collection was Carole King: An Uncommon Love.
Perl Weekly Challenge: A heaven on earth, they call it Base-N Street
Perl Weekly Challenge 384‘s tasks are “Base N” and “Special Binary Substrings”.
I asked my wife about the music, and she said “Base N? Basin. Basin Street Blues.” So I went on a journey down a rabbit hole of an old jazz/blues standard. I picked the Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong version to play here.
Perl Weekly Challenge: Hey! Are we doing government work here?
Perl Weekly Challenge 383‘s tasks are “Similar List” and “Nearest RGB”.
Since this week’s tasks are both about finding things that are close, but not exact, and because my wife has us on a Weird Al kick lately, let’s pick Close But No Cigar as this week’s musical selection.
Perl Weekly Challenge: The World Turned Upside Down!
Perl Weekly Challenge 382‘s tasks are “Hamiltonian Cycle” and “Replace Question Mark”.
As soon as I saw “Hamiltonian”, I knew I needed to use a song from Hamilton: An American Musical… but I couldn’t decide which song best fit with “Cycle”. So I did what I always do when I’m stumped for a creative choice: I asked my wife.
“The Hamilton Polka“, she immediately responded.1 “It’s a five-minute song cycle.”
When she’s right, she’s right.
Perl Weekly Challenge: Oh, yes! I’m the great row column!
Perl Weekly Challenge 381‘s tasks are “Same Row Column” and “Smaller Greater Element”.
This week I honed in on “great” for the music choice, and Freddie Mercury’s version of The Great Pretender immediately jumped to mind.
Perl Weekly Challenge: Just like honey, baby, from the bee
Perl Weekly Challenge 380‘s tasks are “Sum of Frequencies” and “Reverse Degree”.
For music…
She’s as sweet as Tupelo honey
She’s an angel of the first degree…
Perl Backfill Challenge: Shift to low gear, a fifty dollar fine my friend!
I’m making another entry backfilling the challenges I missed while my mother was dying; I’m doing these in her honor.
Perl Weekly Challenge 297‘s tasks were “Contiguous Array” and “Semi-Ordered Permutation”.
I thought about what music I should pick, and “semi” jumped out at me. Semi makes me think trucks, and trucks make me think of Thirty Thousand Pounds of Bananas.
Perl Weekly Challenge: I see strings reversed… sum numbers, too…
Perl Weekly Challenge 379‘s tasks are “Reverse String” and “Armstrong Number”.
So, I think for music this week, I’ll give you a number by Armstrong.1
Perl Weekly Challenge: ‘Cause I’d Already Know
Perl Weekly Challenge 378‘s tasks are “Second Largest Digit” and “Sum of Words”.
I blame thank my wife for this music selection…
Second largest digit
Is not the words in this week’s second task
It’s not that I’m counting
Characters, but if you only knew
How easy… it would be to sum. up. all. these. things!
Sum of words
Is all you have to do to make it real…