Day 2: Red-Nosed Reports

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9 points

Haskell

This was quite fun! I got a bit distracted trying to rewrite safe in point-free style, but I think this version is the most readable. There’s probably a more monadic way of writing lessOne as well, but I can’t immediately see it.

safe xs = any gradual [diffs, negate <$> diffs]
  where
    diffs = zipWith (-) (drop 1 xs) xs
    gradual = all (`elem` [1 .. 3])

lessOne [] = []
lessOne (x : xs) = xs : map (x :) (lessOne xs)

main = do
  input :: [[Int]] <- map (map read . words) . lines <$> readFile "input02"
  print . length $ filter safe input
  print . length $ filter (any safe . lessOne) input
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4 points

Love to see your haskell solutions!

I am so far very amazed with the compactness of your solutions, your lessOne is very much mind-Bending. I have never used or seen <$> before, is it a monadic $?

Also I can’t seem to find your logic for this safety condition: The levels are either all increasing or all decreasing, did you figure that it wasn’t necessary?

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3 points

For the last point, it isn’t needed since the differences between elements should be all positive or all negative for the report to be safe. This is tested with the combination of negate and gradual.

I am also enjoying these Haskell solutions. I’m still learning the language, so it’s been cool to compare my solution with these and grow my understanding of Haskell.

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2 points
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<$> is just fmap as an infix operator.

>>> fmap (+1) [1,2,3]
[2,3,4]
>>> (+1) <\$> [1,2,3]
[2,3,4]
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1 point

Thanks! The other two posters already answered your questions, I think :)

Haskell makes it really easy to build complex operations out of simple functional building blocks, skipping a lot of boilerplate needed in some other languages. I find the compactness easier to read, but I realize that not everyone would agree.

BTW, I’m a relative Haskell newbie. I’m sure more experienced folks could come up with even more interesting solutions!

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5 points
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Uiua

Uiua is still developing very quickly, and this code uses the experimental tuples function, hence the initial directive.

Try it Live!

# Experimental!
"7 6 4 2 1\n1 2 7 8 9\n9 7 6 2 1\n1 3 2 4 5\n8 6 4 4 1\n1 3 6 7 9"
⊜(βŠœβ‹•βŠΈβ‰ @\s)βŠΈβ‰ @\n # Partition at \n, then at space, parse ints.

IsSorted ← +βŠƒ(β‰β‡Œβ†.|≍⍆.)        # Compare with sorted array.
IsSmall  ← /Γ—Γ—βŠƒ(>0|<4)βŒ΅β†˜Β―1-↻1. # Copy offset by 1, check diffs.
IsSafe   ← Γ—βŠƒIsSmall IsSorted  # Safe if Small steps and Ordered.
IsSafer  ← Β±/+≑IsSafe β§…<-1⧻.   # Choose 4 from 5, check again.

&p/+≑IsSafe .            # Part1 : Is each row safe?
&p/+≑(Β±+βŠƒIsSafe IsSafer) # Part2 : Is it safe or safer?
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7 points

How do you write this, not conceptually but physically. Do you have a char picker open at all times?

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4 points

Haha, you can do it that way, in fact the online Uiua Pad editor has all the operators listed along the top.

But all the operators have ascii names, so you can type e.g. IsSmall = reduce mul mul fork(>0|<4) abs drop neg 1 - rot 1 dup and the formatter will reduce that to IsSmall ← /Γ—Γ—βŠƒ(>0|<4)βŒ΅β†˜Β―1-↻1. whenever you save or execute code.

That works in the Pad, and you can enable similar functionality in other editors.

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2 points

i can only imagine doing it with a drawing tablet

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4 points

I like to assume people using array programming languages just have a crystal ball that they use to call upon magic runes on the screen

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3 points

This looks so alien! Does it work with the full set? The comment says 5, choose 4, but I guess it’s written as n, choose n-1?

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1 point

Yes, it should do. I do run the solutions against the live data, but sometimes tweak the solutions afterwards, so can’t always guarantee them :-). I left the comment as 5 choose 4 as it felt clearer in the context of the test data.

It does still feel very alien at times, but I do love being able to think about how to adopt a more arrays-based approach to solving these problems.

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5 points

C

First went through the input in one pass, number by number, but unfortunately that wouldn’t fly for part 2.

Code
#include "common.h"

static int
issafe(int *lvs, int n, int skip)
{
	int safe=1, asc=0,prev=0, ns=0,i;

	for (i=0; safe && i<n; i++) {
		if (i == skip)
			{ ns = 1; continue; }
		if (i-ns > 0)
			safe = safe && lvs[i] != prev &&
			    lvs[i] > prev-4 && lvs[i] < prev+4;
		if (i-ns == 1)
			asc = lvs[i] > prev;
		if (i-ns > 1)
			safe = safe && (lvs[i] > prev) == asc;

		prev = lvs[i];
	}

	return safe;
}

int
main(int argc, const char **argv)
{
	char buf[64], *rest, *tok;
	int p1=0,p2=0, lvs[16],n=0, i;

	if (argc > 1)
		DISCARD(freopen(argv[1], "r", stdin));

	while ((rest = fgets(buf, sizeof(buf), stdin))) {
		for (n=0; (tok = strsep(&rest, " ")); n++) {
			assert(n < (int)LEN(lvs));
			lvs[n] = (int)strtol(tok, NULL, 10);
		}

		for (i=-1; i<n; i++)
			if (issafe(lvs, n, i))
				{ p1 += i == -1; p2++; break; }
	}

	printf("02: %d %d\n", p1, p2);
}

https://github.com/sjmulder/aoc/blob/master/2024/c/day02.c

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2 points

What is this coding style? The function type, name and open brace placement made me think GNU at first, but the code in the body doesn’t look like GCS at all.

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2 points

BSD more or less. Mostly K&R except for function declarations.

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5 points

Rust

The function is_sorted_by on Iterators turned out helpful for compactly finding if a report is safe. In part 2 I simply tried the same with each element removed, since all reports are very short.

fn parse(input: String) -> Vec<Vec<i32>> {
    input.lines()
        .map(|l| l.split_whitespace().map(|w| w.parse().unwrap()).collect())
        .collect()
}

fn is_safe(report: impl DoubleEndedIterator<Item=i32> + Clone) -> bool {
    let safety = |a: &i32, b: &i32| (1..=3).contains(&(b - a));
    report.clone().is_sorted_by(safety) || report.rev().is_sorted_by(safety)
}

fn part1(input: String) {
    let reports = parse(input);
    let safe = reports.iter().filter(|r| is_safe(r.iter().copied())).count();
    println!("{safe}");
}

fn is_safe2(report: &[i32]) -> bool {
    (0..report.len()).any(|i| {  // Try with each element removed
        is_safe(report.iter().enumerate().filter(|(j, _)| *j != i).map(|(_, n)| *n))
    })
}

fn part2(input: String) {
    let reports = parse(input);
    let safe = reports.iter().filter(|r| is_safe2(r)).count();
    println!("{safe}");
}

util::aoc_main!();
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2 points

The is_sorted_by is a really nice approach. I originally tried using that function thinking that |a, b| a > b or |a, b| a < b would cut it but it didn’t end up working. I never thought to handle the check for the step being between 1 and 3 in the callback closure for that though.

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2 points

is_sorted_by is new to me, could be very useful.

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5 points

Haskell

runningDifference :: [Int] -> [Int]
runningDifference (a:[]) = []
runningDifference (a:b:cs) = a - b : (runningDifference (b:cs))

isSafe :: [Int] -> Bool
isSafe ds = (all (> 0) ds || all (< 0) ds) && (all (flip elem [1, 2, 3] . abs) ds) 

isSafe2 :: [Int] -> Bool
isSafe2 ds = any (isSafe2') (zip [0..length ds] (cycle [ds]))

isSafe2' (i, ls) = isSafe . runningDifference $ list
        where
                list = dropIndex i ls

dropIndex _ []     = []
dropIndex 0 (a:as) = dropIndex (-1) as
dropIndex i (a:as) = a : dropIndex (i - 1) as

main = do
        c <- getContents
        let reports = init . lines $ c
        let levels  = map (map read . words) reports :: [[Int]]
        let differences = map runningDifference levels
        let safety = map isSafe differences
        let safety2 = map isSafe2 levels

        putStrLn . show . length . filter (id) $ safety
        putStrLn . show . length . filter (id) $ safety2

        return ()

Took me way too long to figure out that I didn’t have to drop one of them differences but the initial Number

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