Day 14: Restroom Redoubt
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Yeah I don’t know how long I would have tried to solve that on my own. I was starting to wonder if I did something wrong because I read seeing patterns every 80 iterations or so
Someone did use that periodic pattern to cut down on the search space.
I saw that. I think it sort of made sense haha. There’s a reason I’m not in statistics or analytics lol