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+Solution by Nicolas Mendoza
+
diff --git a/challenge-174/nicolas-mendoza/perl/ch-1.pl b/challenge-174/nicolas-mendoza/perl/ch-1.pl
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+#!/u7sr/bin/env perl
+
+use v5.34;
+
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+
+my $limit = 10**10; # Should be within a 10 digit bumber
+my @found = (); # store found numbers
+
+my @too_high_number_prefixes;
+for my $number (0..$limit) { # iterate thru all numbers
+  my $sum = 0; # store a temp sum
+  my @n = split //, $number; # 
+  for (my $i = @n; $i > 0; $i--) { # iterate thru every digit
+    my $c = $n[$i-1]; # pick out digit
+    my $s = $c**$i;
+    $sum += $s;
+    if ($sum > $number) { # go to next number if sum has become bigger already
+      last;
+    }
+  }
+  if ($sum == $number) { # Add to found array if it's a Disarium number
+    push @found, $sum;
+    if (@found == 19) { # bail out when we found 19
+      say "@found";
+      exit;
+    }
+  }
+}