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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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Day 6 Solutions (adventofcode.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months 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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months 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 11 months 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

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

Brute force was good enough I guess?