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            Find the smallest positive integer that does not occur in a given sequence.
          
        
 
        
  
    
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        This is a demo task.
Write a function:
object Solution { def solution(a: Array[Int]): Int }
that, given an array A of N integers, returns the smallest positive integer (greater than 0) that does not occur in A.
For example, given A = [1, 3, 6, 4, 1, 2], the function should return 5.
Given A = [1, 2, 3], the function should return 4.
Given A = [−1, −3], the function should return 1.
Write an efficient algorithm for the following assumptions:
- N is an integer within the range [1..100,000];
- each element of array A is an integer within the range [−1,000,000..1,000,000].
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              Programming language used Scala
            
          
          
            
            
              Time spent on task 7 minutes
              
            
            
          
          
          
            
              
                
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