The Mass Murderers of Josephus
Everyone knows the Josephus challenge and its setup: you arrange n people in a circle, and the first person kills the second, and from then on the first alive person to the right of the previous "killer" kills the next alive person to their right. For example, with...
You have to analyze records of temperature to find the closest to zero.
Write a program that prints the temperature closest to 0 among input data. If two numbers are equally close to zero, positive integer has to be considered closest to zero (for instance, if the temperatures are -5 and 5, then...
The dice game Mia introduces a very non-trivial order of sets of size two:
{3,1} < {3,2} < {4,1} < {4,2} < {4,3} < {5,1} < {5,4} < {6,1} < {6,5} < {1,1} < {2,2} < {6,6} < {1,2}
In general, the order within a tuple does not matter {x,y}={y,x},
{1,2} is greater than anything else,
Pairs are grea...
Sometimes it happens that while typing a sentence, I am distracted and I end up typing the same couple of words twice couple of words twice in succession.
To make sure make sure other people are not bothered by this, your task is to write a program that resolves this problem!
Task
Given an inp...
