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1539. Kth Missing Positive Number

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Given an array arr of positive integers sorted in a strictly increasing order, and an integer k. Return the kth positive integer that is missing from this array. Example 1: Input: arr = [2,3,4,7,11], k = 5 Output: 9 Explanation: The missing positive integers are [1,5,6,8,9,10,12,13,...]. The 5th missing positive integer is 9. Example 2: Input: arr = [1,2,3,4], k = 2 Output: 6 Explanation: T

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