The Weekly Challenge - 362

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The Weekly Challenge - 362

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Task 1: Echo Chamber

Submitted by: Mohammad Sajid Anwar

You are given a string containing lowercase letters.

Write a script to transform the string based on the index position of each character (starting from 0). For each character at position i, repeat it i + 1 times.

Example 1

Input: "abca"
Output: "abbcccaaaa"

Index 0: 'a' -> repeated 1 time  -> "a"
Index 1: 'b' -> repeated 2 times -> "bb"
Index 2: 'c' -> repeated 3 times -> "ccc"
Index 3: 'a' -> repeated 4 times -> "aaaa"

Example 2

Input: "xyz"
Output: "xyyzzz"

Index 0: 'x' -> "x"
Index 1: 'y' -> "yy"
Index 2: 'z' -> "zzz"

Example 3

Input: "code"
Output: "coodddeeee"

Index 0: 'c' -> "c"
Index 1: 'o' -> "oo"
Index 2: 'd' -> "ddd"
Index 3: 'e' -> "eeee"

Example 4

Input: "hello"
Output: "heelllllllooooo"

Index 0: 'h' -> "h"
Index 1: 'e' -> "ee"
Index 2: 'l' -> "lll"
Index 3: 'l' -> "llll"
Index 4: 'o' -> "ooooo"

Example 5

Input: "a"
Output: "a"

Index 0: 'a' -> "a"

Task 2: Spellbound Sorting

Submitted by: Peter Campbell Smith

You are given an array of integers.

Write a script to return them in alphabetical order, in any language of your choosing.

Example 1

Input: (6, 7, 8, 9 ,10)
Output: (8, 9, 7, 6, 10)

eight, nine, seven, six, ten

Example 2

Input: (-3, 0, 1000, 99)
Output: (-3, 99, 1000, 0)

minus three, ninety-nine, one thousand, zero

Example 3

Input: (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
Output: (5, 2, 4, 3, 1)

cinq, deux, quatre, trois, un

Example 4

Input: (0, -1, -2, -3, -4)
Output: (-4, -1, -3, -2, 0)

minus four, minus one, minus three, minus two, zero

Example 5

Input: (100, 101, 102)
Output: (100, 101, 102)

one hundred, one hundred and one, one hundred and two

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Last date to submit the solution 23:59 (UK Time) Sunday 1^st March 2026.

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