In this task, you are given a list of integers and an integer k. You need to find the kth smallest element in the input list and return that.
One example is below.
Q: [163, 290, 90, 51, 96, 86, 282, 265, 10, 85, 91, 201, 68, 126, 26, 228, 229, 236, 31, 71], k=14
A: 201
Rationale: 201 is the 14th smallest element in the input list.
Q: [234, 140, 29, 61, 116, 256, 183, 137, 255, 265, 245, 122, 200, 63, 50, 155, 28, 154, 39, 271], k=17
A:
255