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console.log('Hello World')
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You got me good, Eric.
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Think of the simplest check you can make for a region.click to view code
Mild spoilers ahead, but you're reading the solutions thread.
I was just doing some preliminary checking of the data on my phone with Nushell (to see how much my ageing laptop would suffer) when I discovered there weren't any non trivial cases.
Normally I get the test data working before trying the input data, this is definitely teaching me the value of investigating the data before heading down into the code mines.
Unfortunately I can't get the second star yet because I missed a few days.
I actually did a lot of optimizations before I had to give up and search what I was missing. I did have a look at my input data, but still wouldn't make the connection because in my mind, any solution had to work for the sample too.
Yeah, it's quite a mean trick really - kinda a big middle finger to anyone who does TDD
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I had an feeling it would be trivial, but didnt think it would be that trivial. I got the answer without even parsing the shapes, just called them all 9.Tap for spoiler
That's very interesting because that was one of my early approaches too, but it actually gave me the wrong answer for my input!