Day 8: Playground

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[–] 1 point 9 months ago

spoilerStupider 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.

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