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
- What is this?: Here is a post with a large amount of details: https://programming.dev/post/6637268
- Where do I participate?: https://adventofcode.com/
- Is there a leaderboard for the community?: We have a programming.dev leaderboard with the info on how to join in this post: https://programming.dev/post/6631465
Rust
Hardest part was parsing the input, i somehow forgot how regexes work and wasted hours.
Learning how to do matrix stuff in rust was a nice detour as well.
#[cfg(test)] mod tests { use nalgebra::{Matrix2, Vector2}; use regex::Regex; fn play_game(ax: i128, ay: i128, bx: i128, by: i128, gx: i128, gy: i128) -> i128 { for a_press in 0..100 { let rx = gx - ax * a_press; let ry = gy - ay * a_press; if rx % bx == 0 && ry % by == 0 && rx / bx == ry / by { return a_press * 3 + ry / by; } } 0 } fn play_game2(ax: i128, ay: i128, bx: i128, by: i128, gx: i128, gy: i128) -> i128 { // m * p = g // p = m' * g // |ax bx|.|a_press| = |gx| // |ay by| |b_press| |gy| let m = Matrix2::new(ax as f64, bx as f64, ay as f64, by as f64); match m.try_inverse() { None => return 0, Some(m_inv) => { let g = Vector2::new(gx as f64, gy as f64); let p = m_inv * g; let pa = p[0].round() as i128; let pb = p[1].round() as i128; if pa * ax + pb * bx == gx && pa * ay + pb * by == gy { return pa * 3 + pb; } } }; 0 } #[test] fn day13_part1_test() { let input = std::fs::read_to_string("src/input/day_13.txt").unwrap(); let re = Regex::new(r"[0-9]+").unwrap(); let games = input .trim() .split("\n\n") .map(|line| { re.captures_iter(line) .map(|x| { let first = x.get(0).unwrap().as_str(); first.parse::<i128>().unwrap() }) .collect::<Vec<i128>>() }) .collect::<Vec<Vec<i128>>>(); let mut total = 0; for game in games { let cost = play_game2(game[0], game[1], game[2], game[3], game[4], game[5]); total += cost; } // 36870 println!("{}", total); } #[test] fn day12_part2_test() { let input = std::fs::read_to_string("src/input/day_13.txt").unwrap(); let re = Regex::new(r"[0-9]+").unwrap(); let games = input .trim() .split("\n\n") .map(|line| { re.captures_iter(line) .map(|x| { let first = x.get(0).unwrap().as_str(); first.parse::<i128>().unwrap() }) .collect::<Vec<i128>>() }) .collect::<Vec<Vec<i128>>>(); let mut total = 0; for game in games { let cost = play_game2( game[0], game[1], game[2], game[3], game[4] + 10000000000000, game[5] + 10000000000000, ); total += cost; } println!("{}", total); } }