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[-] mykl@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Uiua

Just a messy part1 so far. Plus a moment of pure rage when I realised the trap. (I have no idea what algorithm Lemmy uses to highlight Uiua code, but it's always a surprise.)

(edit: part 2 now added. I had a stupid error earlier. Takes 12s native or 20+s in the pad.)

Stupid error

I added elements just until the set first hit size 1, rather than continuing until total number of elements equalled number of points.

Run it here(for what it's worth)

# AOC 2025 Day 08
"162,817,812\n57,618,57\n906,360,560\n592,479,940\n352,342,300\n466,668,158\n542,29,236\n431,825,988\n739,650,466\n52,470,668\n216,146,977\n819,987,18\n117,168,530\n805,96,715\n346,949,466\n970,615,88\n941,993,340\n862,61,35\n984,92,344\n425,690,689"
N ← 10
L ← 20
# &fras"AOC2025day08.txt"◌ # Uncomment these three lines,
# N ← 1000                 # drop your file onto this pane and correct that
# L ← 1000                 # filename, to run this against your data.
# You will need to change settings>execution time to 30s or more.

Row ← (
  ⊙(⊃⊢↘₁)
  ⊚◡≡⌟◇(/+˜∊)
  ⨬(⊂⊙□◌                     # Not found: new circuit
  | ⍜⊡(⍜°□(◴⊂))⊢             # One found: add
  | ▽>₀⊸≡◇⧻⍜(⊏|⊂{[]}{∘}◴/◇⊂) # Connect two
  )⊸⧻◴
)
Parse     ← ⍆⋕°csv
Sort      ← ⊏⍏/+ⁿ2/-⊸⍉⊸⧅>2
IndexPrep ← {[°⊟]}⊸°⊂⊸≡⌟₁˜⨂
Part₁     ← ⊙◌/×↙3⇌⍆≡◇⧻⍥Row(-1N)
Part₂     ← /×⊢⍉⊏⊣↘¯⧻◌⍢(Row|<L/+≡◇⧻)

⊃(&p⍜nowPart₁)(&p⍜nowPart₂) &p⍜now(IndexPrep Sort Parse)

[-] strlcpy@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 months ago

the trap

Re. what connections to process or not? That seems to be like one of those that's either completely obvious when you implement your solution one way, and a nasty pitfall when you do it another. In this case, pre-computing the list of pairs to process vs. finding the next one when you need it.

[-] mykl@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

spoiler

Stupider than that: I'd just got halfway through writing a complicated divide and conquer algorithm to calculate nearest pairs when I realised that I could just brute-force it. :-)

But yes, precomputing was definitely the way to go.

this post was submitted on 08 Dec 2025

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