Day 12: Christmas Tree Farm
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Mild spoilers ahead, but you’re reading the solutions thread.
I was just doing some preliminary checking of the data on my phone with Nushell (to see how much my ageing laptop would suffer) when I discovered there weren’t any non trivial cases.
Normally I get the test data working before trying the input data, this is definitely teaching me the value of investigating the data before heading down into the code mines.
Unfortunately I can’t get the second star yet because I missed a few days.
I actually did a lot of optimizations before I had to give up and search what I was missing. I did have a look at my input data, but still wouldn’t make the connection because in my mind, any solution had to work for the sample too.
Yeah, it’s quite a mean trick really - kinda a big middle finger to anyone who does TDD