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Day 5 Solutions (adventofcode.com)

submitted 11 months ago by hal9001 to c/adventofcode

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[–] hal9001 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ranges are always pesky. Lots of off by one errors when I was pulling this one together. It was also the first day I caved and broke out atoms

clojure solution

[–] eskimofry 1 points 11 months ago

at first I was trying to extend my

Solution to problem 1

Which consists of passing a value to a funnel that is the vector whose elements are maps.

That would mean iterating one-by-one over seed ranges. Obviously this is too slow.

but then I deviated and started trying to redo the solution to problem 2 from scratch, at one point thinking about using a

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custom tree based solution.

But my laziness won and I went back to my problem 1 solution and extended it there. Like you, faced off-by-one errors caused by not reading the problem statement properly.