TWC268

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Task1

We take the absolute value of the first elements of arrays after sorting them:

#!/usr/bin/env perl
use strict;
use warnings;

sub magic_number{
  my @x = sort{$a <=> $b} @{$_[0]};
  my @y = sort{$a <=> $b} @{$_[1]};
  abs($x[0] - $y[0])
}

printf "%d\n",magic_number([3,7,5],[9,5,7]);
printf "%d\n",magic_number([1,2,1],[5,4,4]);
printf "%d\n",magic_number([2],[5]);

Task2

After sorting the array, we keep removing pairs of elements and push its reverse to the array that we want to return:

#!/usr/bin/env perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Show;

sub number_game{
  my @arr = sort{$a <=> $b} @{$_[0]};
  my @ret;
  push @ret,reverse splice @arr,0,2 while(@arr);
  @ret
}

print show number_game([2,5,3,4]);
print show number_game([9,4,1,3,6,4,6,1]);
print show number_game([1,2,2,3]);