AdventOfCode2021 VS aoc

Full program on GitHub.

Full program including code to deal with heaps, on GitHub.

Program I used for the above results

See my solution on GitHub.

Note also that you can solve this without a complexity dependency on n. Most solutions I have seen, including mine run in time O(tD), where t is the maximum value of a timer, and D the number of generation, requiring O(t) memory. (This is assuming we can do the required arithmetic operations in constant time, and each numbers require a fixed around of memory storage; if the number of fish gets huge, throw in an additional log n in the complexities, where n is the number of fish on the final day).

Based on my matrix exponentiation solution, here is a closed-form solution:

In my Perl solution of today (I assume, you mean 2021, Day 4), I read stuff in paragraph mode ($/ = "") which makes Perl split input on 2 or more newlines.

I considered doing that for my (Perl) solution, but given the cards are small, that seemed overkill.

Python implementation on GitHub

Full code at GitHub.

Edit: you don't need to determine the type of hand, but you can directly compare the card counts. Second version @GitHub.

New version @GitHub.

So, a new version with a lot less almost-duplicate code @GitHub.

@GitHub

Completed part 2, see GitHub. I couldn't really use the same `DiracDice` class and simply use another `Die`, but had to create a separate `DiracDice2` class.Basically, just keep track of the possible universe state and their counts, and try all possible combinations of die rolls. Keep playing until all universes have a winner.

The rest is the same as my first attempt, but full code at GitHub.

I spent way too much time on this, but I completed my original attempt with the proper object model, see GitHub