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Advent Of Code
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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
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Futhark + sed
Futhark can read only number and array types from stdin, the input data is often a non-starter. Therefore, I often massage it into the right format using
sed.Sed Script
This formats everything nicely, e.g. the example for part 1:
is transformed into this:
Futhark Solution
I had hoped that the input might get big enough for optimization purposes, but the calculations are likely too simple.