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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.

[163, 290, 90, 51, 96, 86, 282, 265, 10, 85, 91, 201, 68, 126, 26, 228, 229, 236, 31, 71], k=14
Solution: 201
Why? 201 is the 14th smallest element in the input list.

New input: [98, 237, 179, 245, 268, 231, 97, 238, 174, 137, 153, 63, 168, 289, 50, 62, 57, 159, 81, 255], k=18
Solution:
255