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Day 6 Solutions (adventofcode.com)
submitted 1 year ago by hal9001 to c/adventofcode
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[–] hal9001 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This one was a high school flashback. Ended up using the quadratic formula to find the root of the curve.

clojure solution

[–] Glaedr304 2 points 1 year ago

I did the same thing! Took me a few minutes to figure out what do to with the decimal answers, before I realized on the continuous graphs they were the min and max

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

Ended Up with iterating over all possible solutions and filter all possibilitys which where greater than the record. Not elegant, but sufficient fast for this purpose.

For Part 2 I merged the values by hand in the Input data.

Solution in Rust

[–] eskimofry 1 points 1 year ago

Brute force was good enough I guess?