Day 12: Christmas Tree Farm

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[–] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 child)

Mild spoilers ahead, but you're reading the solutions thread.

I was just doing some preliminary checking of the data on my phone with Nushell (to see how much my ageing laptop would suffer) when I discovered there weren't any non trivial cases.

Normally I get the test data working before trying the input data, this is definitely teaching me the value of investigating the data before heading down into the code mines.

Unfortunately I can't get the second star yet because I missed a few days.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    I actually did a lot of optimizations before I had to give up and search what I was missing. I did have a look at my input data, but still wouldn't make the connection because in my mind, any solution had to work for the sample too.

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