this post was submitted on 13 Dec 2024
17 points (90.5% liked)

Advent Of Code

1125 readers
32 users here now

An unofficial home for the advent of code community on programming.dev! Other challenges are also welcome!

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.

Everybody Codes is another collection of programming puzzles with seasonal events.

EC 2025

AoC 2025

Solution Threads

M T W T F S S
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31

Rules/Guidelines

Relevant Communities

Relevant Links

Credits

Icon base by Lorc under CC BY 3.0 with modifications to add a gradient

console.log('Hello World')

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Day 13: Claw Contraption

Megathread guidelines

  • Keep top level comments as only solutions, if you want to say something other than a solution put it in a new post. (replies to comments can be whatever)
  • You can send code in code blocks by using three backticks, the code, and then three backticks or use something such as https://topaz.github.io/paste/ if you prefer sending it through a URL

FAQ

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] janAkali@lemmy.one 1 points 11 months ago

Nim

I'm embarrasingly bad with math. Couldn't have solved this one without looking up the solution. =C

type Vec2 = tuple[x,y: int64]

const
  PriceA = 3
  PriceB = 1
  ErrorDelta = 10_000_000_000_000

proc isInteger(n: float): bool = n.round().almostEqual(n)
proc `+`(a: Vec2, b: int): Vec2 = (a.x + b, a.y + b)

proc solveEquation(a, b, prize: Vec2): int =
  let res_a = (prize.x*b.y - prize.y*b.x) / (a.x*b.y - a.y*b.x)
  let res_b = (a.x*prize.y - a.y*prize.x) / (a.x*b.y - a.y*b.x)
  if res_a.isInteger and res_b.isInteger:
    res_a.int * PriceA + res_b.int * PriceB
  else: 0

proc solve(input: string): AOCSolution[int, int] =
  let chunks = input.split("\n\n")
  for chunk in chunks:
    let lines = chunk.splitLines()
    let partsA = lines[0].split({' ', ',', '+'})
    let partsB = lines[1].split({' ', ',', '+'})
    let partsC = lines[2].split({' ', ',', '='})

    let a = (parseBiggestInt(partsA[3]), parseBiggestInt(partsA[6]))
    let b = (parseBiggestInt(partsB[3]), parseBiggestInt(partsB[6]))
    let c = (parseBiggestInt(partsC[2]), parseBiggestInt(partsC[5]))

    result.part1 += solveEquation(a,b,c)
    result.part2 += solveEquation(a,b,c+ErrorDelta)