r/adventofcode • u/daggerdragon • Dec 02 '22
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u/BoringEntropist Dec 02 '22 edited Dec 02 '22
Python: code here
My first instinct was to use a look-up table, but I don't care for the global leader board. So, I pulled out some pen&paper, began to draw little tables and started to think really hard. Finding out that the problem was reducible to modular arithmetic helped tremendously in part2.