Find kth smallest and count stair-climbing ways

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Find kth smallest and count stair-climbing ways

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This pair evaluates proficiency with order-statistics and selection algorithms for finding the k-th smallest element and with dynamic programming and combinatorial recurrence reasoning for the staircase counting problem.

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Find kth smallest and count stair-climbing ways