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Advent of Code is an annual Christmas themed coding challenge that runs from December 1st until christmas. Each day the coding problems get progressively harder. We have a leaderboard and pretty good turnout, so feel free to hop in at any time and show your stuff!
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The fact that cycles are key to solving pt2 makes me wonder if that's just a property of this puzzle or they have a clever way to generate inputs that collapse into cycles. Either way the puzzle author is very clever to work it out
I'm seeing the benefit of those nerds writing generic libraries just for AOC. I've written like 4 or 5 variants of the darn matrix rotation function
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I mean, statistically a problem like this has a finite number of board states (especially after a tilt) so it HAS to collapse into cycles eventually
The real trick is getting them to do it without going on too long, but maybe that's just inherent to the problem.
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