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Day 1: Secret Entrance

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[-] hades@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

the idea is that crossing the zero is easy to detect by dividing the total dial movement by 100. I.e. if you cross from 120 to 90 you will detect that 120/100=1 changed to 90/100=0. The only case when this doesn’t work is when you stop at zero going in the negative direction, hence the extra if

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