Consider what you are usually doing behind your computer. Most likely there is some job you do often, and do manually. It could be as simple as repeating the same keystrokes several times, or running a program, consulting its output, and doing something based on that output. Perhaps you repeatedly visit a website, waiting for something to happen.

My suggestion is that you automate that process. Add some useful options to it. Let it print out a usage message. Use POD to create a manual page.

Alternatively, consider the following problem. In the plane you have a set of N red points, and M blue points. Find a line such that on each side of the line, there are at most floor (N / 2) red points, and at most floor (M / 2) blue points.

But the latter might be a bit too advanced, and for most people, pretty useless.

Abigail

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