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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.

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🌟 - 2023 DAY 13 SOLUTIONS -🌟 (programming.dev)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Day 13: Point of Incidence

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This one was a nice change of pace after the disaster of day 12. For part 1 I kept a list of valid column indexes, and checked those columns in each row for reflections, eliminating columns from the list as I went. To find vertical reflections, I just transposed the grid first.

Part 2 looked daunting at first, but I just needed to add a smudges counter to each column candidate, eliminating them when their counter reaches 2. For scoring, just count the 1-smudge columns.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]