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π - 2023 DAY 5 SOLUTIONS -π
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[JavaScript] Well that was by far the hardest out of all of the days, part 1 was relatively fine but part 2 took me awhile of trying different things
Ended up solving it by working backwards by trying different location values and seeing if that can become a valid seed. Takes around 3 secs to compute the answer.
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Part 1 Code Block
Part 2 Code Block
Huh, that's clever.
Turns out I got really lucky and my location value is much lower than most peoples which is why it can be solved relatively quickly
Torn between doing the problem backwards and implementing a more general case -- glad to know both approaches work out in the end!