Day 13: Claw Contraption
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I have nothing. I hate Diophantine equations. That is all I have to say today.
(edit) I came back to it after a 24 hour break. All that nonsense about scoring multiple results really took me in yesterday.
import 'dart:math';
import 'package:collection/collection.dart';
List<List<Point<int>>> getMachines(List<String> lines) => lines
.splitBefore((e) => e == '')
.map((m) => m
.whereNot((e) => e.isEmpty)
.map((l) => RegExp(r'(\d+)')
.allMatches(l)
.map((m) => int.parse(m.group(0)!))
.toList())
.map((pr) => Point(pr.first, pr.last))
.toList())
.toList();
bool isInteger(num n) => (n - n.round()).abs() < 0.00001;
int cost(Point a, Point b, Point goal) {
var resA = (goal.x * b.y - goal.y * b.x) / (a.x * b.y - a.y * b.x);
var resB = (a.x * goal.y - a.y * goal.x) / (a.x * b.y - a.y * b.x);
return (isInteger(resA) && isInteger(resB))
? resA.round() * 3 + resB.round() * 1
: 0;
}
int solve(mx, p) => [for (var m in mx) cost(m[0], m[1], m[2] + p)].sum;
const large = Point(10000000000000, 10000000000000);
part1(List<String> lines) => solve(getMachines(lines), Point(0, 0));
part2(List<String> lines) => solve(getMachines(lines), large);
Well done! I like how youβre just looking for four integers instead of bothering with parsing the rest of the line.
Python
Execution time: ~<1 millisecond (800 microseconds on my machine)
Good old school linear algebra from middle school. we can solve this really really fast. With minimal changes from part 1!
FastCode
from time import perf_counter_ns
import string
def profiler(method):
def wrapper_method(*args: any, **kwargs: any) -> any:
start_time = perf_counter_ns()
ret = method(*args, **kwargs)
stop_time = perf_counter_ns() - start_time
time_len = min(9, ((len(str(stop_time))-1)//3)*3)
time_conversion = {9: 'seconds', 6: 'milliseconds', 3: 'microseconds', 0: 'nanoseconds'}
print(f"Method {method.__name__} took : {stop_time / (10**time_len)} {time_conversion[time_len]}")
return ret
return wrapper_method
@profiler
def main(input_data):
part1_total_cost = 0
part2_total_cost = 0
for machine in input_data:
Ax,Ay,Bx,By,Px,Py = [ int(l[2:]) for l in machine.split() if l[-1] in string.digits ]
y,r = divmod((Ay * Px - Ax * Py), (Ay * Bx - Ax * By))
if r == 0:
x,r = divmod(Px - Bx * y, Ax)
if r == 0:
part1_total_cost += 3*x + y
y,r = divmod((Ay * (Px+10000000000000) - Ax * (Py+10000000000000)), (Ay * Bx - Ax * By))
if r == 0:
x,r = divmod((Px+10000000000000) - Bx * y, Ax)
if r == 0:
part2_total_cost += 3*x + y
return part1_total_cost,part2_total_cost
if __name__ == "__main__":
with open('input', 'r') as f:
input_data = f.read().strip().replace(',', '').split('\n\n')
part_one, part_two = main(input_data)
print(f"Part 1: {part_one}\nPart 2: {part_two}")
This is a really excellent, clean solution! Would you mind breaking down how the piece of linear algebra works (for a shmo like me who doesnβt remember that stuff frum school heh π )
https://lemmy.world/comment/13950499
take the two equations, solve for y, and make sure y is fully divisible.
Itβs interesting that youβre not checking if the solution to x is a whole number. I guess the data doesnβt contain any counterexamples.
They do, if the remainder returned by divmod(β¦) wasnβt zero then it wouldnβt be divisble
we are solving for y first. If there is a y then x is found easily.
(Ax)*x + (Bx)*y = Px
and (Ay)*x + (By)*y = Py
Because of Ax or Ay and Bx or By, lets pretend that they are not (A*x)*x
and (A*y)*y
for both. they are just names. could be rewritten as: (Aleft)*x + (Bleft)*y = Pleft
and (Aright)*x + (Bright)*y = Pright
but I will keep them short. solving for y turns into this:
y = (Ay*Px - Ax*Py) / (Ay*Bx - Ax*By)
if mod of 1 is equal to 0 then there is a solution. We can be confident that x is also a solution, too. Could there be an edge case? I didnβt proof it, but it works flawlessly for my solution.
Thankfully, divmod does both division and mod of 1 at the same time.
Thank you so much for your explanation! I kind of found some clues looking up perp dot products & other vector math things, but this breaks it down very nicely.
I implemented your solution in rust, and part 2 failed by +447,761,194,259 (this was using signed 64-bit integers, i64
). When I changed it to use signed 64 bit floating-point f64
and checked that the solution for x
produces a whole number it worked.
Haskell
Pen and Paper solved these equations for me.
import Control.Arrow
import qualified Data.Char as Char
import qualified Data.List as List
import qualified Data.Maybe as Maybe
window6 :: [Int] -> [[Int]]
window6 [] = []
window6 is = List.splitAt 6
>>> second window6
>>> uncurry (:)
$ is
parse :: String -> [[Int]]
parse s = window6 . map read . words . List.filter ((Char.isDigit &&& Char.isSpace) >>> uncurry (||)) $ s
solveEquation (ax:ay:bx:by:tx:ty:[]) transformT
| (aNum `mod` aDenom) /= 0 = Nothing
| (bNum `mod` bDenom) /= 0 = Nothing
| otherwise = Just (abs $ aNum `div` aDenom, abs $ bNum `div` bDenom)
where
tx' = transformT tx
ty' = transformT ty
aNum = (bx*ty') - (by*tx')
aDenom = (ax*by) - (bx*ay)
bNum = (ax*ty') - (ay*tx')
bDenom = (ax*by) - (bx*ay)
part1 = map (flip solveEquation id)
>>> Maybe.catMaybes
>>> map (first (*3))
>>> map (uncurry (+))
>>> sum
part2 = map (flip solveEquation (+ 10000000000000))
>>> Maybe.catMaybes
>>> map (first (*3))
>>> map (uncurry (+))
>>> sum
main = getContents
>>= print
. (part1 &&& part2)
. parse
(Edit: coding style)
Python
I just threw linear algebra and float64 on this question and it stuck. Initially in order to decrease the numbers a bit (to save precision) I tried to find greatest common divisors for the coordinates of the target but in many cases it was 1, so that was that went down the drain. Luckily float64 was able to achieve precisions up to 1e-4 and that was enough to separate wheat from chaff. So in the end I did not have to use exact formulas for the inverse of the matrix though probably would be a more satisfying solution if I did.
import numpy as np
from functools import partial
from pathlib import Path
cwd = Path(__file__).parent
def parse_input(file_path, correction):
with file_path.open("r") as fp:
instructions = fp.readlines()
machine_instructions = []
for ind in range(0,len(instructions)+1,4):
mins = instructions[ind:ind+3]
machine_instructions.append([])
for i,s in zip(range(3),['+','+','=']):
machine_instructions[-1].append([int(mins[i].split(',')[0].split(s)[-1]),
int(mins[i].split(',')[1].split(s)[-1])])
for i in range(2):
machine_instructions[-1][-1][i] += correction
return machine_instructions
def solve(threshold, maxn, vectors):
c = np.array([3, 1])
M = np.concat([np.array(vectors[0])[:,None],
np.array(vectors[1])[:,None]],axis=1).astype(int)
if np.linalg.det(M)==0:
return np.nan
Minv = np.linalg.inv(M)
nmoves = Minv @ np.array(vectors[2])
if np.any(np.abs(nmoves - np.round(nmoves))>threshold) or\
np.any(nmoves>maxn) or np.any(nmoves<0):
return np.nan
return np.sum(c * (Minv @ np.array(vectors[2])))
def solve_problem(file_name, correction, maxn, threshold=1e-4):
# correction 0 or 10000000000000
# maxn 100 or np.inf
machine_instructions = parse_input(Path(cwd, file_name), correction)
_solve = partial(solve, threshold, maxn)
tokens = list(map(_solve, machine_instructions))
return int(np.nansum(list(tokens)))
C#
public partial class Day13 : Solver
{
private record struct Button(int X, int Y);
private record struct Machine(int X, int Y, Button A, Button B);
private List<Machine> machines = [];
[GeneratedRegex(@"^Button (A|B): X\+(\d+), Y\+(\d+)$")]
private static partial Regex ButtonSpec();
[GeneratedRegex(@"^Prize: X=(\d+), Y=(\d+)$")]
private static partial Regex PrizeSpec();
public void Presolve(string input) {
var machine_specs = input.Trim().Split("\n\n").ToList();
foreach (var spec in machine_specs) {
var lines = spec.Split("\n").ToList();
if (ButtonSpec().Match(lines[0]) is not { Success: true } button_a_match
|| ButtonSpec().Match(lines[1]) is not { Success: true } button_b_match
|| PrizeSpec().Match(lines[2]) is not { Success:true} prize_match) {
throw new InvalidDataException($"parse error: ${lines}");
}
machines.Add(new Machine(
int.Parse(prize_match.Groups[1].Value),
int.Parse(prize_match.Groups[2].Value),
new Button(int.Parse(button_a_match.Groups[2].Value), int.Parse(button_a_match.Groups[3].Value)),
new Button(int.Parse(button_b_match.Groups[2].Value), int.Parse(button_b_match.Groups[3].Value))
));
}
}
private string Solve(bool unit_conversion) {
BigInteger total_cost = 0;
foreach (var machine in machines) {
long prize_x = machine.X + (unit_conversion ? 10000000000000 : 0);
long prize_y = machine.Y + (unit_conversion ? 10000000000000 : 0);
BigInteger det = machine.A.X * machine.B.Y - machine.B.X * machine.A.Y;
if (det == 0) continue;
BigInteger det_a = prize_x * machine.B.Y - machine.B.X * prize_y;
BigInteger det_b = prize_y * machine.A.X - machine.A.Y * prize_x;
var (a, a_rem) = BigInteger.DivRem(det_a, det);
var (b, b_rem) = BigInteger.DivRem(det_b, det);
if (a_rem != 0 || b_rem != 0) continue;
total_cost += a * 3 + b;
}
return total_cost.ToString();
}
public string SolveFirst() => Solve(false);
public string SolveSecond() => Solve(true);
}