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+# Create a script that prints nth order forward difference series.
+# You should be a able to pass the list of numbers and order number as
+# command line parameters. Let me show you with an example.
+
+# Suppose we have list (X) of numbers: 5, 9, 2, 8, 1, 6 and we would like
+# to create 1st order forward difference series (Y).
+# So using the formula Y(i) = X(i+1) - X(i), we get the following numbers:
+# (9-5), (2-9), (8-2), (1-8), (6-1). In short, the final series would be:
+# 4, -7, 6, -7, 5. If you noticed, it has one less number than the
+# original series. Similary you can carry on 2nd order forward difference
+# series like: (-7-4), (6+7), (-7-6), (5+7) => -11, 13, -13, 12.
+
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+use v5.10;
+
+# we start by teading the list of numbers and the order
+
+my $order = pop @ARGV;    # last command line parameter is requested order
+
+# we are going to define a 2 dimmension array to hold original data and
+# calculed differences. [0] index for order is input data by definition
+
+my @differences;
+
+$differences[0] = [@ARGV];    # just copy input to order 0 diff
+
+# now we start calculating differences as many times as $order indicates:
+
+for my $o ( 0 .. $order - 1 ) {
+
+    # we will calculate $o+1 array from $o
+    # we will need the amount of elements on current array
+    my $osize = @{ $differences[$o] };
+    last if $osize < 2;    # cannot calculate more differences
+    for my $i ( 0 .. $osize - 2 ) {    # will do $osize - 1 substractions
+        $differences[ $o + 1 ][$i] =
+          $differences[$o][ $i + 1 ] - $differences[$o][$i];
+    }
+}
+
+# now we just print requested order
+print "$_ " for @{ $differences[$order] };
+say '';                                # final "\n"
+
+# example: you can call this script to get the 2nd order difference below like:
+# $> perl ch-1.pl 5 9 2 8 1 6 2
+#
+# and get the corresponding result:
+#
+# -11 13 -13 12
+#
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+# Create a script that prints Prime Decomposition of a given number.
+# The prime decomposition of a number is defined as a list of prime
+# numbers which when all multiplied together, are equal to that number.
+# For example, the Prime decomposition of 228 is 2,2,3,19 as 228 = 2 * 2 * 3 * 19.
+
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+use v5.10;
+
+# we will read the number from command line, like:
+
+my $number = shift;
+
+# and start trying to divide by a factor, starting with 2
+
+my $factor = 2;
+
+while ( $number > 1 ) {
+    if ( $number % $factor ) {    # divisibility test: not divisible
+        $factor++;
+
+        # following line is an optimization, exlplained below
+        $factor = $number unless $factor < sqrt $number;
+    }
+    else {                        # divisible
+        $number /= $factor;
+
+        # now we just print $factor, and a comma or final enter following
+        print $number > 1 ? "$factor, " : "$factor\n";
+    }
+}
+
+# the reason $factor is always a prime number is because of the order we
+# are following (ascending order). If $factor wasn't a prime, all of its prime divisors would
+# have divide $number before, so we would'n actually have $factor now.
+
+# Also note that if we comment line #23 above, this script will take like forever even for
+# not that big factor primes.
+# One obvious optimization would be to stop checking when $factor reaches square
+# root of current $number, and that's what the mentioned line does
+# Even without catching the sqrt calculation (i.e. we are recalculating sqrt on almost every
+# iteration) factorizing a prime number like 982451653 on my system improves form 53 seconds when
+# I comment that line, to .01 seconds when uncommented