Day 7: Bridge Repair

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45s on my machine for first shot, trying to break my will to brute force πŸ˜…. I’ll try improving on it in a bit after I smoke another bowl and grab another drink.

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import itertools
import re
import aoc

def ltr(e):
    r = int(e[0])
    for i in range(1, len(e), 2):
        o = e[i]
        n = int(e[i + 1])
        if o == '+':
            r += n
        elif o == '*':
            r *= n
        elif o == '||':
            r = int(f"{r}{n}")
    return r

def pl(l, os):
    d = [int(x) for x in re.findall(r'\d+', l)]
    t, ns = d[0], d[1:]
    ops = list(itertools.product(os, repeat=len(ns) - 1))
    for o in ops:
        e = str(ns[0])
        for i, op in enumerate(o):
            e += f" {op} {ns[i + 1]}"
        r = ltr(e.split())
        if r == t:
            return r
    return 0

def one():
    lines = aoc.get_lines(7)
    acc = 0
    for l in lines:
        acc += pl(l, ['+', '*'])
    print(acc)

def two():
    lines = aoc.get_lines(7)
    acc = 0
    for l in lines:
        acc += pl(l, ['+', '*', '||'])
    print(acc)

one()
two()
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What a horrible way to name variables

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a e o, Killer Tofu. That’s all I can think of reading this code.

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It’s not a long lived project, it’s a puzzle, and once solved never needs to run again. My objective here is to get the correct answer, not win a style contest.

Can you provide a link to your solution? I’d like to check it out.

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My initial comment was a bit harsh, I’m sorry for that. It was meant to be a bit of a joke. Anyway here’s my code. Do note that I don’t do the challenges timed so I have a bit more time to name my variables accordingly. Takes 35 seconds to run on a pc with a AMD Ryzen 5 5600

import sys
from tqdm import tqdm


input = sys.stdin.read()

def all_operator_permutations(operator_count):
    if operator_count == 0:
        return [[]]

    smaller_permutations = all_operator_permutations(operator_count-1)
    return [
            *[['+', *ops] for ops in smaller_permutations],
            *[['*', *ops] for ops in smaller_permutations],
            *[['||', *ops] for ops in smaller_permutations],
            ]

def test_operators(ops, values):
    res = values.pop(0)
    for op in ops:
        match op:
            case '*':
                res *= values.pop(0)
            case '+':
                res += values.pop(0)
            case '||':
                res = int(f"{res}{values.pop(0)}")
    return res


total_calibration_result = 0

for line in tqdm(input.splitlines()[:]):
    target, *tail = line.split(':')
    target = int(target)
    values = [int(val) for val in tail[0].split()]

    all_perms = all_operator_permutations(len(values) - 1)
    ops = all_perms.pop()
    while True:
        res = test_operators(ops, values.copy())
        if res == target:
            total_calibration_result += target
            break
        if not all_perms:
            break
        ops = all_perms.pop()

print(total_calibration_result)
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