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diff --git a/challenge-178/james-smith/perl/ch-1.pl b/challenge-178/james-smith/perl/ch-1.pl
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+#!/usr/local/bin/perl
+
+use strict;
+
+use warnings;
+use feature qw(say state);
+use Test::More;
+use Benchmark qw(cmpthese timethis);
+use Data::Dumper qw(Dumper);
+
+my $q = Complex->new(1);
+
+
+foreach ( -10000 .. 10000 ) { #n16384 ) {
+  my $t = Complex->new($_,0);
+  my $q = $t->toQIB;
+  my $c = $q->toComplex;
+  say "$t         ->  $q  ->       $c    -> ",$c->toQIB if "$t" ne "$c";
+}
+exit;
+
+package Complex;
+
+sub new                  { bless [@_[1,2]], shift }
+use overload '""' => sub { "$_[0][0] + $_[0][1] i" };
+sub real                 { $_[0][0] }
+sub imaginary            { $_[0][1] }
+sub is_real              { !$_[0][1] }
+sub toQIB                { QIB->new_from_Complex( $_[0] ); }
+
+sub new_from_QIB {
+  my($class,$r,$i,$f,@v) = ( $_[0], 0, 0, 1, split //, pop->[0] );
+  $r += $f*pop @v, @v && ($i += $f*pop @v), $f*=-4 while @v;
+  $class->new( $r, $i );
+}
+
+
+package QIB;
+
+sub new                  { bless [pop], shift }
+use overload '""' => sub { $_[0][0] };
+sub value                { $_[0][0] }
+sub toComplex            { Complex->new_from_QIB( $_[0] ) }
+
+sub new_from_Real {
+  my $class = shift;
+  return $class->new(0) unless $_[0]; ## Null case!
+  state @LOOK = qw(0000 0103 0102 0101 0100 0203 0202 0201 0200 0303 0302 0301 0300 0003 0002 0001);
+
+  my ( $re, $n, @Q ) = ( $_[0]>0 ? '..$' : '$', $_[0]<0 ? -shift : 4*shift );
+
+  (push @Q,$n%16), $n>>=4 while $n;                   ## Now we strip off the digit pairs
+
+  for( my $j = my $l = 0; $l < @Q; $j = ++$l ) {      ## Now we sort out carries
+    $Q[$j]-=16, $Q[++$j]++ while $Q[$j]>12;
+  }
+  ## And return the string...
+  return $class->new( join( '', map {$LOOK[$_]} reverse @Q ) =~ s/^0+//r =~ s/$re//r );
+}
+
+sub new_from_Complex {
+  my( $class, $c ) = @_;
+  $class->new( $class->new_from_Real( $c->real      )->value
+        + 10 * $class->new_from_Real( $c->imaginary )->value );
+}
+
+1;
diff --git a/challenge-178/james-smith/perl/ch-2.pl b/challenge-178/james-smith/perl/ch-2.pl
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+#!/usr/local/bin/perl
+
+use strict;
+
+use warnings;
+use feature qw(say);
+use Test::More;
+use Benchmark qw(cmpthese timethis);
+use Data::Dumper qw(Dumper);
+
+my @TESTS = (
+  [ 0, 1 ],
+);
+
+is( my_function($_->[0]), $_->[1] ) foreach @TESTS;
+
+done_testing();
+
+sub my_function {
+  return 1;
+}
+