use bignum;

Try and solve a few problems on hackerrank.com that way. Their cpu time restrictions are usually too stringent for Math::BigInt, even with a "fast" backend. Python ints are built-in, bignum is an afterthought.

Show me a hackerrank problem that can't be solved in Perl because of time restrictions.

The only one I haven't been able to solve in Perl was PRNG Sequnce Guessing, so I solved it in Java. But the problem wasn't the time constraint, but the different behaviour of bit operators on big numbers.

($q=q:Sq=~/;[c](.)(.)/;chr(-||-|5+lengthSq)`"S|oS2"`map{chr |+ord
}map{substrSq`S_+|`|}3E|-|`7**2-3:)=~y+S|`+$1,++print+eval$q,q,a,
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Precisely why it looks more like MATHS. :)

> > "Your code is basically the same, except that it doesn't have any dollar signs or semicolons."

> Precisely why it looks more like MATHS. :)

You don't like sigils?

Try this

use strict;
use warnings;
$,="\t";

my ($a,$b,$c);

sub A() :lvalue { $a };
sub B() :lvalue { $b };
sub C() :lvalue { $c };

A = 1;

B = A + 1;

C = A + B;

print
  A,
  B,
  C,
  B**3,
  sqrt(B);
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Cheers Rolf
_{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :)
Je suis Charlie!}