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❄️ - 2023 DAY 3 SOLUTIONS -❄️
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console.log('Hello World')
Language: C
Part 2 stumped me for a little bit, it wasn't an obvious extension of part 1. Part 1 was about numbers (with one or more ...) while part 2 worked from the symbols (with exactly two ...). Going the other way would require more bookkeeping to avoid double counting.
And for the implementation: if you loop over the grid and check surrounding cells for digits you'd have to account for a bunch of cases, e.g. NW/N or N/NE being part of the same number or NW and NE being part of separate numbers. And you'd have to parse the numbers again. But building a graph or reference list of some sort is both unergonomic with C and not necessarily any simpler.
I ended up just writing out the cases, and honestly it didn't turn out too bad.
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