Advent Of Code

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Advent of Code is an annual Advent calendar of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill sets and skill levels that can be solved in any programming language you like.

AoC 2024

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🌟 - 2023 DAY 6 SOLUTIONS -🌟 (self.advent_of_code)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Ategon to c/advent_of_code

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Day 6: Wait for It

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I went with solving the quadratic equation, so part 2 was just a trivial change in parsing. It was a bit janky to find the integer that is strictly larger than a floating point number, but it all worked out.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

(number+1).floor() does the trick

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah, that's clever. I'll remember that when it comes up again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In Python when using numpy to find the roots, sometimes you get a numeric artifact like 30.99999999999, which breaks this. Make sure to limit the significant digits to a sane amount like 5 with rounding to prevent that.