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[–] zogwarg@awful.systems 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Day 6: Wait For It

https://adventofcode.com/2023/day/6

Alternate spoiler name - for part 2~~Do you remember highschool algebra?~~ Can you (or your compiler) remember highschool algebra fast enough to beat out a naïve implementation?

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 3 points 11 months ago

nice cleanser after yesterday

spoilerit would have taken me longer to figure out the algebra than to just mush the inputs together and get the solution that way (16s runtime)