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gilbert_given_189
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Advent Of Code 2024

Day 17 - Discussion
I really think these latter days are tainting players to brute force something quadrillions in size.
gilbert_given_189
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Advent Of Code 2024

Day 17 - Solution
I feel like I'm reaching my limit of what I can solve. [The overlaps needed to find the registers is just too much for me.] If it's not because of the easy Day 13, I may never got this far, and I'm not that good at puzzles. The gummy condition of my laptop keyboard after the tea spillage accident isn't helping either.

Unfortunately, I cannot provide a general solution to part 2. [All I can recommend to solve this hard puzzle is figure out what your program is doing.] Provided here is just the solution for part 1, something you may have already figured out.

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Let's hope Day 18 is easier. Probably not.

Last edited by gilbert_given_189 (Dec. 17, 2024 16:59:11)

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Advent Of Code 2024

Day 18 - Discussion
Great, it's maze solving again.
Oh, also how did I correctly predict the second part's problem lol

Last edited by gilbert_given_189 (Dec. 18, 2024 09:49:17)

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Advent Of Code 2024

Day 18 - Solution
I procrastinated a lot on this day. Welp.

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ideapad-320
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Advent Of Code 2024

Day 17
First non-numerical output???

Last edited by ideapad-320 (Dec. 21, 2024 03:39:14)

gilbert_given_189
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Advent Of Code 2024

Day 19 - Discussion
I feel like Earley could help with the second part, but let's see if a simple solution would work.
(I'm guessing not)
gilbert_given_189
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Advent Of Code 2024

Day 19 - Discussion

Finally, a solution of Part 2 that doesn't take ages!*
…and it doesn't work. Ugh.

Oh no… What went wrong? What do I fix? Did I miss an edge case?
*cheated again

Last edited by gilbert_given_189 (Dec. 19, 2024 17:14:20)

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Advent Of Code 2024

Day 19 - Solution
As I've said in the fine print, I cheated in this day by looking at the “discussion room”. [Turns out, the last piece of the puzzle is memoization. The simple “check if the prefix is equal” solution works the best with them. That's Occam's razor for ya.]

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gilbert_given_189
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Advent Of Code 2024

Day 20 - Discussion
Seriously? Another maze solving puzzle?
gilbert_given_189
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Advent Of Code 2024

Day 21 - Discussion

I… can't read the problem.
I think this is where I quit. (also, I haven't done part 2 of Day 20 yet)
ideapad-320
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Advent Of Code 2024

Day 17
I GOT PT 2 OF DAY 17!! it only took like 5-10 hrs.
ideapad-320
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Advent Of Code 2024

Day 18
I expected part 2 to be them dropping one then the next every step (like when you are at move 0, 0 blocks, at move 1, 1 block, so on and so forth, but I was wrong!)
Hint(select): binary search
Or you can brute force, if part 1 executes in under a second, part 2 will take under an hour.

Last edited by ideapad-320 (Dec. 22, 2024 02:49:20)

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Advent Of Code 2024

Day 19
Now I can start solving it, REGEX TIME!!!!! (i hope it works)

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