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+Solution by James Smith
+
+I'm new to Perl 6 so looking for interesting (not necessarily optimal
+solutions) to try out some of the cool features that Perl 6 gives over
+Perl 5 - especially as it is basically a new language with new syntactic
+sugar....
+
+# Problem 2
+
+Wierdly I think problem 2 is the easier one this week.
+
+I wrote this twice, the second solution I'm using minimizes memory
+usage by extends the array rather than copying a new one. We just
+loop through the array adding the next value to the current one
+and then unshift the first 1 to the array.
+
+Can't see an easy neat way of doing it differently in Perl 5 and 6 -
+but I do like
+
+1. the MAIN function in perl which clears up how CLI
+parameters are pulled into the code and
+
+1. the arbitrary precision
+integers... (no more "e+" notation)
+
+# Problem 1
+
+## Perl 5
+
+This was an interesting challenge - and still working out if I have
+the optimal solution, again I'll write an iterator which gets the
+next number and call this multiple times to get the list....
+
+To find the next one we have to find the first number larger than the
+current largest number in the list - which is a multiple of 5, 3 or 2
+of an entry already in the list...
+
+The loop we use is interesting as it contains `next`, `last` and `redo`
+commands. Firstly how it works - we are looking for numbers whose
+multiples are larger than the largest value.
+
+* so we start looping through the list looking for multiples of 5 (we
+will get to a larger value first when multiplying by 5). We use `next`
+here to short cut the loop until we have reached a larger value...
+
+* we then store this, and then continue with the next highest factor.
+
+  * If there are no factors left we use `last` to exit the loop and
+  and "add" the value to the hamming array.
+  
+  * If there are factors left we need to continue the loop with the
+  new value - BUT - we need to re-check the current element from the
+  hamming array. We do this with `redo` which repeats the loop with
+  the same value...
+
+* once we have a new value we store it on the array and return it...
+
+This method means we only loop through less than once rather than
+looping through for 2, 3 & 5....
+
+## Perl 6
+
+I'm new to Perl 6 and so looking for what features of the language
+give me an advantage of Perl 5 which I've been programming for over
+20 years now...
+
+So I looked at using a generator with lazy evaluation using 
+`lazy gather` and `take` to generate the values... Looks interesting
+as a "programming construct" but again like last weeks use of
+currying - does not particularly look efficient in this case.
+
+
+
+