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+#!/bin/env python
+"""
+#===============================================================================
+#
+#         FILE: ch_1.py
+#
+#        USAGE: ./ch_1.py
+#
+#  DESCRIPTION: https://perlweeklychallenge.org/blog/perl-weekly-challenge-080/
+#               Challenge #1
+#               Smallest Positive Number Bits
+#
+#       AUTHOR: Lubos Kolouch
+#===============================================================================
+"""
+
+
+def get_smallest_missing(arr: list):
+    """ Find if there is any number missing and return it """
+
+    # Let's see if are lucky and the minimum -1 is >0
+    arr_min = min(n for n in arr if n > 0)
+
+    if arr_min - 1 > 0:
+        return arr_min-1
+
+    # Not lucky, arr_min is 0, so need to iterate
+    # NOTE: the excercise does not say what to do if there is nothing missing
+    # so let's just return 0 as per Twitter confirmation
+
+    while arr_min < max(arr):
+        arr_min += 1
+
+        if arr_min not in arr:
+            return arr_min
+    return 0
+
+
+assert get_smallest_missing([5, 2, -2, 0]) == 1
+assert get_smallest_missing([1, 8, -1]) == 2
+assert get_smallest_missing([2, 0, -1]) == 1
+assert get_smallest_missing([2, 0, 1]) == 0
+assert get_smallest_missing([2, 0, 1, 3, 4, 5]) == 0