# searching medium

Closest to a Target Number

The carnival guessing game: whoever's guess lands closest to the secret number wins the giant panda. 🐼

You get a list of guesses (at least one) and the secret number. Print the winning guess. On a tie, the earlier guess wins.

Example:

Input: guesses = [10, 25, 18, 30], secret = 20 Output: 18

The distances to 20 are 10, 5, 2, 1018's distance of 2 is the smallest.

💡 need a hint?

srch-closest-to-target.py🔒 given lines are locked — write your code in between
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