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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Ategon@programming.dev to c/advent_of_code@programming.dev

Day 11: Cosmic Expansion

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[-] zarlin@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Yepp, this one got me as well! I found the discrepancy when testing against the sample through, which showed the result for a factor 100 (which needed to be 99). Knowing the correct outcome made debugging a lot easier.

I always make sure my solution passes all the samples before trying the full input.

[-] SteveDinn@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 months ago

Me too. I ran all the samples, and I was still banging my head. I can usually see the mistake if it's an off-by-one error in a calculation, but this was a mistake in reading the problem description, so I couldn't see it at first.

[-] zarlin@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah the descriptions contain a lot of story fluff, but also critical bits of information.

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