compute_power(x)
that calculates the power of a number x
using the given transformation rules.powers
to store tuples of the form (power, number)
.[lo, hi]
and compute its power using compute_power(x)
.(computed_power, number)
to the powers
list.powers
list by the first element of each tuple (the power) and use the second element (the number) as a tiebreaker.kth
tuple in the sorted powers
list.