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Oh, this one was easy (dynamic programming at last!). Still haven't figured out the right way to approach yesterday's part two, though.
If you work out a solution to yesterday's part 2 which isn't just "cheat and rely on an external solver library", I will be most impressed.
Programming and mathematics have quite a large overlap and if you want to write tough puzzles it'll be "deep in the woods" for both, but that question is very much on the maths side. And "are you able to pass arguments to Z3?" isn't a very satisfying puzzle for me.
I did linear algebra with sympy over Q to reduce the search space to nullspace x [-N,N] grid (which is generally <=2 dimensional in these inputs and N<50 seems sufficient in most cases) then made easy work of it with vectorization. Similarly for part 2 did linear algebra over F2 but the search grid is also much smaller [0,1] x nullspace