Definition: 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.
Input: [203, 154, 288, 91, 157, 287, 252, 289, 205, 282, 100, 93, 72, 246, 253, 235, 180, 135, 74, 68], k=14
Output:
246