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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

I'm way behind, but I'm trying to learn F#.

I'm using the library Combinatorics in dotnet, which I've used in the past, generate in this case every duplicating possibility of the operations. I the only optimization that I did was to use a function to concatenate numbers without converting to strings, but that didn't actually help much.

I have parser helpers that use ReadOnlySpans over strings to prevent unnecessary allocations. However, here I'm adding to a C# mutable list and then converting to an FSharp (linked) list, which this language is more familiar with. Not optimal, but runtime was pretty good.

I'm not terribly good with F#, but I think I did ok for this challenge.

F#

// in another file:
let concatenateLong (a:Int64) (b:Int64) : Int64 =
    let rec countDigits (n:int64) =
        if n = 0 then 0
        else 1 + countDigits (n / (int64 10))   

    let bDigits = if b = 0 then 1 else countDigits b
    let multiplier = pown 10 bDigits |> int64
    a * multiplier + b

// challenge file
type Operation = {Total:Int64; Inputs:Int64 list }

let parse (s:ReadOnlySpan<char>) : Operation =
    let sep = s.IndexOf(':')
    let total = Int64.Parse(s.Slice(0, sep))
    let inputs = System.Collections.Generic.List<Int64>()
    let right:ReadOnlySpan<char> = s.Slice(sep + 1).Trim()

   // because the Split function on a span returns a SpanSplitEnumerator, which is a ref-struct and can only live on the stack, 
   // I can't use the F# list syntax here
    for range in right.Split(" ") do
        inputs.Add(Int64.Parse(sliceRange right range))
        
    {Total = total; Inputs = List.ofSeq(inputs) }

let part1Ops = [(+); (*)]

let execute ops input =
    input
    |> PSeq.choose (fun op ->
        let total = op.Total
        let inputs = op.Inputs
        let variations = Variations(ops, inputs.Length - 1, GenerateOption.WithRepetition)
        variations
        |> Seq.tryFind (fun v ->
            let calcTotal = (inputs[0], inputs[1..], List.ofSeq(v)) |||> List.fold2 (fun acc n f -> f acc n) 
            calcTotal = total
            )
        |> Option.map(fun _ -> total)
        )
    |> PSeq.fold (fun acc n -> acc + n) 0L

let part1 input =
    (read input parse)
    |> execute part1Ops

let part2Ops = [(+); (*); concatenateLong]

let part2 input = (read input parse) |> execute part2Ops

The Gen0 garbage collection looks absurd, but Gen0 is generally considered "free".

Method Mean Error StdDev Gen0 Gen1 Allocated
Part1 19.20 ms 0.372 ms 0.545 ms 17843.7500 156.2500 106.55 MB
Part2 17.94 ms 0.355 ms 0.878 ms 17843.7500 156.2500 106.55 MB

V2 - concatenate numbers did little for the runtime, but did help with Gen1 garbage, but not the overall allocation.

Method Mean Error StdDev Gen0 Gen1 Allocated
Part1 17.34 ms 0.342 ms 0.336 ms 17843.7500 125.0000 106.55 MB
Part2 17.24 ms 0.323 ms 0.270 ms 17843.7500 93.7500 106.55 MB
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Uiua

This turned out to be reasonably easy in Uiua, though this solution relies on macros which maybe slow it down.

(edit: removing one macro sped it up quite a bit)

(edit2: Letting Uiua build up an n-dimensional array turned out to be the solution, though sadly my mind only works in 3 dimensions. Now runs against the live data in around 0.3 seconds.)

Try it here

Data   ← ⊜(β–‘βŠœβ‹•βŠΈ(¬∈": "))βŠΈβ‰ @\n "190: 10 19\n3267: 81 40 27\n83: 17 5\n156: 15 6\n7290: 6 8 6 15\n161011: 16 10 13\n192: 17 8 14\n21037: 9 7 18 13\n292: 11 6 16 20"
Calib! ← β‰‘β—‡βŠ’β–½βŠΈβ‰‘β—‡(βˆˆβ™­/[^0]:Β°βŠ‚) # Calibration targets which can be constructed from their values.
&p/+Calib!βŠƒ(+|Γ—)Data
&p/+Calib!βŠƒ(+|Γ—|+×ⁿ:10+1βŒŠβ‚™β‚β‚€,)Data
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Thanks to your solution I learned more about how to use reduce :D

My solution did work for the example input but not for the actual one. When I went here and saw this tiny code block and you saying

This turned out to be reasonably easy

I was quite taken aback. And it's so much better performance-wise too :D (well, until part 2 comes along in my case. Whatever this black magic is you used there is too high for my fried brain atm)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Haha, sorry about that, it does seem quite smug :-) I went into it expecting it to be a nightmare of boxes and dimensions, but finding it something I could deal with was a massive relief. Of course once I had a working solution I reversed it back into a multi-dimensional nightmare. That's where the performance gains came from: about 10x speedup from letting Uiua build up as many dimensions as it needed before doing a final deshaping.

I enjoyed reading a different approach to this, and thanks for reminding me that β‹•$"__" exists, that's a great idiom to have up your sleeve.

Let me know if there's any bits of my solution that you'd like me to talk you through.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

No worries, it does seem a lot less difficult in hindsight now, my mind just blanked at what I expected to be a lot more code :))

That performance improvement is amazing, I'll definitely take a look at how that works in detail later. Just gotta recover from the mental stretch gymnastics trying to remember the state of the stack at different code positions

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I feel like I need a Rosetta stone to read this code

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

thanks that indeed is a Rosetta stone

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Python

It is a tree search

def parse_input(path):

  with path.open("r") as fp:
    lines = fp.read().splitlines()

  roots = [int(line.split(':')[0]) for line in lines]
  node_lists = [[int(x)  for x in line.split(':')[1][1:].split(' ')] for line in lines]

  return roots, node_lists

def construct_tree(root, nodes, include_concat):

  levels = [[] for _ in range(len(nodes)+1)]
  levels[0] = [(str(root), "")]
  # level nodes are tuples of the form (val, operation) where both are str
  # val can be numerical or empty string
  # operation can be *, +, || or empty string

  for indl, level in enumerate(levels[1:], start=1):

    node = nodes[indl-1]

    for elem in levels[indl-1]:

      if elem[0]=='':
        continue

      if elem[0][-len(str(node)):] == str(node) and include_concat:
        levels[indl].append((elem[0][:-len(str(node))], "||"))
      if (a:=int(elem[0]))%(b:=int(node))==0:
        levels[indl].append((str(int(a/b)), '*'))
      if (a:=int(elem[0])) - (b:=int(node))>0:
        levels[indl].append((str(a - b), "+"))

  return levels[-1]

def solve_problem(file_name, include_concat):

  roots, node_lists = parse_input(Path(cwd, file_name))
  valid_roots = []

  for root, nodes in zip(roots, node_lists):

    top = construct_tree(root, nodes[::-1], include_concat)

    if any((x[0]=='1' and x[1]=='*') or (x[0]=='0' and x[1]=='+') or
           (x[0]=='' and x[1]=='||') for x in top):

      valid_roots.append(root)

  return sum(valid_roots)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Haskell

import Control.Arrow
import Data.Char
import Text.ParserCombinators.ReadP

numP = read <$> munch1 isDigit
parse = endBy ((,) <$> (numP <* string ": ") <*> sepBy numP (char ' ')) (char '\n')

valid n [m] = m == n
valid n (x : xs) = n > 0 && valid (n - x) xs || (n `mod` x) == 0 && valid (n `div` x) xs

part1 = sum . fmap fst . filter (uncurry valid . second reverse)

concatNum r = (+r) . (* 10 ^ digits r)
    where
        digits = succ . floor . logBase 10 . fromIntegral

allPossible [n] = [n]
allPossible (x:xs) = ((x+) <$> rest) ++ ((x*) <$> rest) ++ (concatNum x <$> rest)
    where
        rest = allPossible xs

part2 = sum . fmap fst . filter (uncurry elem . second (allPossible . reverse))

main = getContents >>= print . (part1 &&& part2) . fst . last . readP_to_S parse
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Oooh, some nice number theory going on there!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Haskell

A surprisingly gentle one for the weekend! Avoiding string operations for concatenate got the runtime down below one second on my machine.

import Control.Arrow
import Control.Monad
import Data.List
import Data.Maybe

readInput :: String -> [(Int, [Int])]
readInput = lines >>> map (break (== ':') >>> (read *** map read . words . tail))

equatable :: [Int -> Int -> Int] -> (Int, [Int]) -> Bool
equatable ops (x, y : ys) = elem x $ foldM apply y ys
  where
    apply a y = (\op -> a `op` y) <$> ops

concatenate :: Int -> Int -> Int
concatenate x y = x * mag y + y
  where
    mag z = fromJust $ find (> z) $ iterate (* 10) 10

main = do
  input <- readInput <$> readFile "input07"
  mapM_
    (print . sum . map fst . (`filter` input) . equatable)
    [ [(+), (*)],
      [(+), (*), concatenate]
    ]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Love the fold on the list monad to apply the operations.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I wanted to this the way yo did, by repeatedly applying functions, but I didn't dare to because I like to mess up and spend some minutes debugging signatures, may I ask what your IDE setup is for the LSP-Hints with Haskell?
Setting up on my PC was a little bit of a pain because it needed matching ghc and ghcide versions, so I hadn't bothered doing it on my Laptop yet.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I use neovim with haskell-tools.nvim plugin. For ghc, haskell-language-server and others I use nix which, among other benefits makes my development environment reproducible and all haskellPackages are built on the same version so there are no missmatches.

But, as much as I love nix, there are probably easier ways to setup your environment.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I just checked and I have haskell-tools.nvim on my PC but it somehow crashes the default config of the autocompletion for me, which I am too inexperienced to debug. I'll try it nonetheless, since I don't have autocompletion on the laptop anyways, thank you for the suggestion!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Ah, well, I have a bit of a weird setup. GHC is 9.8.4, built from git. I'm using HLS version 2.9.0.1 (again built from git) under Emacs with the LSP and flycheck packages. There are probably much easier ways of getting it to work :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I envy emacs for all of its modes, but I don't think I'm relearning the little I know about vi. Thank you for the answer on the versions and building!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Since all operations increase the accumulator, I tried putting a guard (a <= x) in apply, but it doesn't actually help all that much (0.65s -> 0.43s).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

0.65 -> 0.43 sounds pretty strong, isn't that a one-fourth speedup?

Edit: I was able to achieve a 30% speed improvement using this on my solution

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

It's not insignificant, sure, but I'd prefer 10x faster :D

Plus I'm not sure it's worth the loss of generality and readability. It is tempting to spend hours chasing this kind of optimization though!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

C

Big integers and overflow checking, what else is there to say πŸ˜…β€‹

Code

#include "common.h"

/* returns 1 on sucess, 0 on overflow */
static int
concat(uint64_t a, uint64_t b, uint64_t *out)
{
	uint64_t mul;

	for (mul=1; mul<=b; mul*=10) ;

	return 
	    !__builtin_mul_overflow( mul, a, out) &&
	    !__builtin_add_overflow(*out, b, out);
}

static int
recur(uint64_t expect, uint64_t acc, uint64_t arr[], int n, int p2)
{
	uint64_t imm;

	return
	    n < 1 ? acc == expect :
	    acc >= expect ? 0 :
	    recur(expect, acc + arr[0], arr+1, n-1, p2) ||
	    recur(expect, acc * arr[0], arr+1, n-1, p2) ||
	    (p2 && concat(acc, arr[0], &imm)
	        && recur(expect, imm, arr+1, n-1, p2));
}

int
main(int argc, char **argv)
{
	char buf[128], *tok, *rest;
	uint64_t p1=0, p2=0, arr[32], expect;
	int n;

	if (argc > 1)
		DISCARD(freopen(argv[1], "r", stdin));
	
	while ((rest = fgets(buf, sizeof(buf), stdin))) {
		assert(strchr(buf, '\n'));
		expect = atoll(strsep(&rest, ":"));

		for (n=0; (tok = strsep(&rest, " ")); n++) {
			assert(n < (int)LEN(arr));
			arr[n] = atoll(tok);
		}

		p1 += recur(expect, 0, arr, n, 0) * expect;
		p2 += recur(expect, 0, arr, n, 1) * expect;
	}

	printf("07: %"PRIu64" %"PRIu64"\n", p1, p2);
	return 0;
}

https://github.com/sjmulder/aoc/blob/master/2024/c/day07.c

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Factor

spoiler

TUPLE: equation value numbers ;
C: <equation> equation

: get-input ( -- equations )
  "vocab:aoc-2024/07/input.txt" utf8 file-lines [
    split-words unclip but-last string>number
    swap [ string>number ] map <equation>
  ] map ;

: possible-quotations ( funcs numbers -- quots )
  dup length 1 -
  swapd all-selections
  [ unclip swap ] dip
  [ zip concat ] with map
  swap '[ _ prefix >quotation ] map ;

: possibly-true? ( funcs equation -- ? )
  [ numbers>> possible-quotations ] [ value>> ] bi
  '[ call( -- n ) _ = ] any? ;

: solve ( funcs -- n )
  get-input
  [ possibly-true? ] with filter
  [ value>> ] map-sum ;

: part1 ( -- n )
  { + * } solve ;

: _|| ( m n -- mn )
  [ number>string ] bi@ append string>number ;

: part2 ( -- n )
  { + * _|| } solve ;

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Slow and dumb gets it done! I may revisit this when I give up on future days.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Uiua

Credits to @[email protected] for the approach of using reduce and also how to split the input by multiple characters.
I can happily say that I learned quite a bit today, even though the first part made me frustrated enough that I went searching for other approaches ^^

Part two just needed a simple modification. Changing how the input is parsed and passed to the adapted function took longer than changing the function itself actually.

Run with example input here

PartOne ← (
  &rs ∞ &fo "input-7.txt"
  βŠœβ–‘β‰ @\n.
  ≑◇(βŠœβ–‘β‰ @:.)
  β‰‘βœβŠ‘β‹•0
  β‰‘βœ(Β°β–‘βŠ‘1)(βŠœβ‹•β‰ @ .)
  ⟜(⊑0⍉)

  # own attempt, produces a too low number
  # ≑(:βˆ©Β°β–‘Β°βŠŸ
  #   ⍣(⍀.◑⍣(1⍀.(≀/Γ—)⍀.(β‰₯/+),,)0
  #     βŠ™Β€β‹―β‡‘βΏ:2-1⊸⧻
  #     ⊞(β₯(⟜⍜(βŠ™(↙2))(⨬+Γ—βŠ™Β°βŠŸβŠ‘0)
  #         β†˜1
  #       )⧻.
  #       ⍀.=0⧻.
  #     )
  #     βˆˆβ™­β—Œ
  #   )0)

  # reduce approach found on the programming.dev AoC community by [email protected]
  ≑(β—‡(∈/(β—΄β™­[βŠƒ(+|Γ—)]))⊑0:Β°βŠ‚)
  Β°β–‘/+β–½
)

PartTwo ← (
  &rs ∞ &fo "input-7.txt"
  ⊜(β–‘βŠœβ‹•Β¬βˆˆ": ".)β‰ @\n.
  βŸœβ‰‘β—‡βŠ’
  ≑◇(∈/(β—΄β™­[β‰‘βŠƒβŠƒ(+|Γ—|β‹•$"__")]):Β°βŠ‚)
  Β°β–‘/+β–½
)

&p "Day 7:"
&pf "Part 1: "
&p PartOne
&pf "Part 2: "
&p PartTwo
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Team Uiua in the house!

(β•―Β°β–‘Β°)β•―οΈ΅ ┻━┻

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Hell yeah!

┻━┻︡ (Β°β–‘Β°)/ οΈ΅ ┻━┻

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Haskell

I'm not very proud, I copied my code for part two.

import Control.Arrow hiding (first, second)

import qualified Data.List as List
import qualified Data.Char as Char

parseLine l = (n, os)
        where
                n = read . takeWhile (Char.isDigit) $ l
                os = map read . drop 1 . words $ l

parse :: String -> [(Int, [Int])]
parse s = map parseLine . takeWhile (/= "") . lines $ s

insertOperators target (r:rs) = any (target ==) (insertOperators' r rs)
insertOperators' :: Int -> [Int] -> [Int]
insertOperators' acc []     = [acc]
insertOperators' acc (r:rs) = insertOperators' (acc+r) rs ++ insertOperators' (acc*r) rs

insertOperators2 target (r:rs) = any (target ==) (insertOperators2' r rs)
insertOperators2' :: Int -> [Int] -> [Int]
insertOperators2' acc []     = [acc]
insertOperators2' acc (r:rs) = insertOperators2' (acc+r) rs ++ insertOperators2' (acc*r) rs ++ insertOperators2' concatN rs
        where
                concatN = read (show acc ++ show r)

part1 ls = filter (uncurry insertOperators)
        >>> map fst
        >>> sum
        $ ls
part2 ls = filter (uncurry insertOperators2)
        >>> map fst
        >>> sum
        $ ls

main = getContents >>= print . (part1 &&& part2) . parse
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

If you get the right answer, it's ok πŸ‘

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Nim

Bruteforce, my beloved.

Wasted too much time on part 2 trying to make combinations iterator (it was very slow). In the end solved both parts with 3^n and toTernary.

Runtime: 1.5s

func digits(n: int): int =
  result = 1; var n = n
  while (n = n div 10; n) > 0: inc result

func concat(a: var int, b: int) =
  a = a * (10 ^ b.digits) + b

func toTernary(n: int, len: int): seq[int] =
  result = newSeq[int](len)
  if n == 0: return
  var n = n
  for i in 0..<len:
    result[i] = n mod 3
    n = n div 3

proc solve(input: string): AOCSolution[int, int] =
  for line in input.splitLines():
    let parts = line.split({':',' '})
    let res = parts[0].parseInt
    var values: seq[int]
    for i in 2..parts.high:
      values.add parts[i].parseInt

    let opsCount = values.len - 1
    var solvable = (p1: false, p2: false)
    for s in 0 ..< 3^opsCount:
      var sum = values[0]
      let ternary = s.toTernary(opsCount)
      for i, c in ternary:
        case c
        of 0: sum *= values[i+1]
        of 1: sum += values[i+1]
        of 2: sum.concat values[i+1]
        else: raiseAssert"!!"
      if sum == res:
        if ternary.count(2) == 0:
          solvable.p1 = true
        solvable.p2 = true
        if solvable == (true, true): break
    if solvable.p1: result.part1 += res
    if solvable.p2: result.part2 += res

Codeberg repo

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Lisp

Could probably go much faster if I kept track of calculations to not repeat, but 4 seconds for part 2 on my old laptop is good enough for me. Also, not really a big change from part 1 to part 2.

Part 1 and 2


(defstruct calibration result inputs)

(defun p1-process-line (line)
  (let ((parts (str:words line)))
    (make-calibration :result (parse-integer (car parts) :junk-allowed t)
                      :inputs (mapcar #'parse-integer (cdr parts)))))

(defun apply-opperators (c opps)
  (let ((accum (car (calibration-inputs c))))
  (loop for o in opps
        for v in (cdr (calibration-inputs c))
        until (> accum (calibration-result c))
        if (eql o 'ADD)
          do (setf accum (+ accum v))
        else if (eql o 'MUL)
          do (setf accum (* accum v))
        else
          do (setf accum (+ v (* accum (expt 10 (1+ (floor (log v 10)))))))
        finally (return accum)
        )))

(defun generate-operators (item-count)
  (labels ((g-rec (c results)
             (if (< c 1)
                 results
                 (g-rec (1- c) (loop for r in results
                                     collect (cons 'ADD r)
                                     collect (cons 'MUL r))))))
    (g-rec (1- item-count) '((ADD) (MUL)))))

(defun generate-ops-hash (c gen-ops)
  (let ((h (make-hash-table)))
    (dotimes (x c)
      (setf (gethash (+ 2 x) h) (funcall gen-ops (+ 1 x))))
    h))

(defun validate-calibration (c ops-h)
  (let ((r (calibration-result c))
        (ops (gethash (length (calibration-inputs c)) ops-h)))
    (loop for o in ops
          for v = (apply-opperators c o)
          when (= v r)
            return t)))

(defun run-p1 (file) 
  (let ((calibrations  (read-file file #'p1-process-line))
        (ops (generate-ops-hash 13 #'generate-operators)))
    (loop for c in calibrations
          when (validate-calibration c ops)
            sum (calibration-result c))))

(defun generate-operators-p2 (item-count)
  (labels ((g-rec (c results)
             (if (< c 1)
                 results
                 (g-rec (1- c) (loop for r in results
                                     collect (cons 'ADD r)
                                     collect (cons 'MUL r)
                                     collect (cons 'CAT r))))))
    (g-rec (1- item-count) '((ADD) (MUL) (CAT)))))

(defun run-p2 (file) 
  (let ((calibrations  (read-file file #'p1-process-line))
        (ops (generate-ops-hash 13 #'generate-operators-p2)))
    (loop for c in calibrations
          when (validate-calibration c ops)
            sum (calibration-result c))))

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Java

Today was pretty easy one but for some reason I spent like 20 minutes overthinking part 2 when all it needed was one new else if. I initially through the concatenation operator would take precedence even tho it clearly says "All operators are still evaluated left-to-right" in the instructions..

I'm sure there are optimizations to do but using parallelStreams it only takes around 300ms total on my machine so there's no point really

The code

import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.nio.file.Path;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.List;

public class Day7 {
    public static void main(final String[] _args) throws IOException {
        final List<Equation> equations = Files.readAllLines(Path.of("2024\\07\\input.txt"), StandardCharsets.UTF_8).stream()
            .map(line -> line.split(":\\s"))
            .map(line -> new Equation(
                    Long.parseLong(line[0]),
                    Arrays.stream(line[1].split("\\s"))
                        .map(Integer::parseInt)
                        .toArray(Integer[]::new)
                )
            ).toList();

        final char[] part1Operators = {'+', '*'};
        System.out.println("Part 1: " + equations.parallelStream()
            .mapToLong(equation -> getResultIfPossible(equation, part1Operators))
            .sum()
        );

        final char[] part2Operators = {'+', '*', '|'};
        System.out.println("Part 2: " + equations.parallelStream()
            .mapToLong(equation -> getResultIfPossible(equation, part2Operators))
            .sum()
        );
    }

    private static Long getResultIfPossible(final Equation equation, final char[] operators) {
        final var permutations = Math.pow(operators.length, equation.values.length - 1);
        for (int i = 0; i < permutations; i++) {
            long result = equation.values[0];
            int count = i;

            for (int j = 0; j < equation.values.length - 1; j++) {
                // If the result is already larger than the expected one, we can short circuit here to save some time
                if (result > equation.result) {
                    break;
                }

                final char operator = operators[count % operators.length];
                count /= operators.length;

                if (operator == '+') { result += equation.values[j + 1]; }
                else if (operator == '*') { result *= equation.values[j + 1]; }
                else if (operator == '|') { result = Long.parseLong(String.valueOf(result) + String.valueOf(equation.values[j + 1])); }
                else {
                    throw new RuntimeException("Unsupported operator " + operator);
                }
            }

            if (result == equation.result) {
                return result;
            }
        }

        return 0L;
    }

    private static record Equation(long result, Integer[] values) {}
}

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Made a couple of attempts to munge the input data into some kind of binary search tree, lost some time to that, then threw my hands into the air and did a more naΓ―ve sort-of breadth-first search instead. Which turned out to be better for part 2 anyway.
Also, maths. Runs in just over a hundred milliseconds when using AsParallel, around half a second without.

::: spoiler C#

List<(long, int[])> data = new List<(long, int[])>();

public void Input(IEnumerable<string> lines)
{
  foreach (var line in lines)
  {
    var parts = line.Split(':', StringSplitOptions.TrimEntries);

    data.Add((long.Parse(parts.First()), parts.Last().Split(' ').Select(int.Parse).ToArray()));
  }
}

public void Part1()
{
  var correct = data.Where(kv => CalcPart(kv.Item1, kv.Item2)).Select(kv => kv.Item1).Sum();

  Console.WriteLine($"Correct: {correct}");
}
public void Part2()
{
  var correct = data.AsParallel().Where(kv => CalcPart2(kv.Item1, kv.Item2)).Select(kv => kv.Item1).Sum();

  Console.WriteLine($"Correct: {correct}");
}

public bool CalcPart(long res, Span<int> num, long carried = 0)
{
  var next = num[0];
  if (num.Length == 1)
    return res == carried + next || res == carried * next;
  return CalcPart(res, num.Slice(1), carried + next) || CalcPart(res, num.Slice(1), carried * next);
}

public bool CalcPart2(long res, Span<int> num, long carried = 0)
{
  var next = num[0];
  // Get the 10 logarithm for the next number, expand the carried value by 10^<next 10log + 1>, add the two together
  // For 123 || 45
  // 45 β‡’ 10log(45) + 1 == 2
  // 123 * 10^2 + 45 == 12345
  long combined = carried * (long)Math.Pow(10, Math.Floor(Math.Log10(next) + 1)) + next;
  if (num.Length == 1)
    return res == carried + next || res == carried * next || res == combined;
  return CalcPart2(res, num.Slice(1), carried + next) || CalcPart2(res, num.Slice(1), carried * next) || CalcPart2(res, num.Slice(1), combined);
}
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

you meant depth first, right? since you're using recursion

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

That is true, I've evidently not had enough coffee yet this morning.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

TypeScript

I wrote my own iterator because I'm a big dummy. Also brute forced (~8s). Might be worth adding a cache to skip all the questions that have been computed / done.

Solution

import { AdventOfCodeSolutionFunction } from "./solutions";

function MakeCombination<T>(choices: Array<T>, state: Array<number>): Array<T> {
    return state.map((v) => choices[v]);
}

function MakeStateArray(length: number) {
    const newArray = [];
    while (length-- > 0)
        newArray.push(0);

    return newArray;
}

function IncrementState(state: Array<number>, max: number): [state: Array<number>, overflow: boolean] {
    state[0]++;
    for (let index = 0; index < state.length; index++) {
        if (state[index] == max) {
            state[index] = 0;

            if (index + 1 == state.length)
                return [state, true];

            state[index + 1]++;
        }
    }

    return [state, false];
}

function GenerateCombinations<T>(choices: Array<T>, length: number): Array<Array<T>> {
    const states = MakeStateArray(length);
    const combinations: Array<Array<T>> = [];

    let done = false
    while (!done) {
        combinations.push(MakeCombination(choices, states));
        done = IncrementState(states, choices.length)[1];
    }


    return combinations;
}

enum Op {
    MUL = "*",
    ADD = "+",
    CON = "|",
}

function ApplyOp(a: number, b: number, op: Op): number {
    switch (op) {
        case Op.MUL:
            return a * b;
        case Op.ADD:
            return a + b;
        case Op.CON:
            return Number(`${a}${b}`);
    }
}

function ApplyOperatorsToNumbers(numbers: Array<number>, ops: Array<Op>): number {
    let prev = ApplyOp(numbers[0], numbers[1], ops[0]);

    for (let index = 2; index < numbers.length; index++) {
        prev = ApplyOp(prev, numbers[index], ops[index - 1])
    }

    return prev;
}

export const solution_7: AdventOfCodeSolutionFunction = (input) => {
    const numbers = // [{target: 123, numbers: [1, 2, 3, ...]}, ...]
        input.split("\n")
            .map(
                (v) => v.trim()
                    .split(":")
                    .map(v => v.trim().split(" ").map(v => Number(v)))
            ).map(
                (v) => {
                    return { target: v[0][0], numbers: v[1] }
                }
            );

    let part_1 = 0;
    let part_2 = 0;

    for (let index = 0; index < numbers.length; index++) {
        const target = numbers[index].target;
        const numbs = numbers[index].numbers;

        // GenerateCombinations(["+", "*"], 2) => [["+", "+"], ["+", "*"], ["*", "+"], ["*", "*"]]
        const combinations = GenerateCombinations([Op.ADD, Op.MUL], numbs.length - 1); 

        // part 1 calculations
        for (let combinationIndex = 0; combinationIndex < combinations.length; combinationIndex++) {
            const combination = combinations[combinationIndex];
            const result = ApplyOperatorsToNumbers(numbs, combination);
            if (result == target) {
                part_1 += result;
                break;
            }
        }

        const combinations2 = GenerateCombinations([Op.ADD, Op.MUL, Op.CON], numbs.length - 1);

        // part 2 calculations
        for (let combinationIndex = 0; combinationIndex < combinations2.length; combinationIndex++) {
            const combination = combinations2[combinationIndex];
            const result = ApplyOperatorsToNumbers(numbs, combination);
            if (result == target) {
                part_2 += result;
                break;
            }
        }

    }

    return {
        part_1,
        part_2,
    }
}

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

J

Didn't try to make it clever at all, so it's fairly slow (minutes, not seconds). Maybe rewriting foldl_ops in terms of destructive array update would improve matters, but the biggest problem is that I don't skip unnecessary calculations (because we've already found a match or already reached too big a number). This is concise and follows clearly from the definitions, however.

data_file_name =: '7.data
lines =: cutopen fread data_file_name
NB. parse_line yields a boxed vector of length 2, target ; operands
NB. &amp;. is "under": u &amp;. v is v^:_1 @: u @: v with right rank of v
parse_line =: monad : '(". &amp;. >) (>y) ({.~ ; (}.~ >:)) '':'' i.~ >y'
NB. m foldl_ops n left folds n by the string of binary operators named by m,
NB. as indices into the global operators, the leftmost element of m naming
NB. an operator between the leftmost two elements of n. #m must be #n - 1.
foldl_ops =: dyad define
   if. 1 >: # y do. {. y else.
      (}. x) foldl_ops (((operators @. ({. x))/ 2 {. y) , 2 }. y)
   end.
)
NB. b digit_strings n enumerates i.b^n as right justified digit strings
digit_strings =: dyad : '(y # x) #:"1 0 i. x ^ y'
feasible =: dyad define
   operators =: x  NB. global
   'target operands' =. y
   +./ target = ((# operators) digit_strings (&lt;: # operands)) foldl_ops"1 operands
)
compute =: monad : '+/ ((> @: {.) * (y &amp; feasible))"1 parse_line"0 lines'
result1 =: compute +`*

concat =: , &amp;.: (10 &amp; #.^:_1)
result2 =: compute +`*`concat

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Dart

Suspiciously easy, so let's see how tomorrow goes.... (edit: forgot to put the language! Dart for now, thinking about Uiua later)

import 'package:more/more.dart';

var ops = [(a, b) => a + b, (a, b) => a * b, (a, b) => int.parse('$a$b')];

bool canMake(int target, List<int> ns, int sofar, dynamic ops) {
  if (ns.isEmpty) return target == sofar;
  for (var op in ops) {
    if (canMake(target, ns.sublist(1), op(sofar, ns.first), ops)) return true;
  }
  return false;
}

solve(List<String> lines, dynamic ops) {
  var sum = 0;
  for (var line in lines.map((e) => e.split(' '))) {
    var target = int.parse(line.first.skipLast(1));
    var ns = line.skip(1).map(int.parse).toList();
    sum += (canMake(target, ns.sublist(1), ns.first, ops)) ? target : 0;
  }
  return sum;
}

part1(List<String> lines) => solve(lines, ops.sublist(0, 2));
part2(List<String> lines) => solve(lines, ops);
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Python

Takes ~5.3s on my machine to get both outputs. Not sure how to optimize it any further other than running the math in threads? Took me longer than it should have to realize a lot of unnecessary math could be cut if the running total becomes greater than the target while doing the math. Also very happy to see that none of the inputs caused the recursive function to hit Python's max stack depth.

Code

import argparse
import os


class Calibrations:
    def __init__(self, target, operators) -> None:
        self.operators = operators
        self.target = target
        self.target_found = False

    def do_math(self, numbers, operation) -> int:
        if operation == "+":
            return numbers[0] + numbers[1]
        elif operation == "*":
            return numbers[0] * numbers[1]
        elif operation == "||":
            return int(str(numbers[0]) + str(numbers[1]))

    def all_options(self, numbers, last) -> int:
        if len(numbers) < 1:
            return last
        for j in self.operators:
            # If we found our target already, abort
            # If the last value is greater than the target, abort
            if self.target_found or last > self.target:
                return
            total = self.all_options(
                numbers[1:], self.do_math((last, numbers[0]), j)
            )
            if total == self.target:
                self.target_found = True

    def process_line(self, line) -> int:
        numbers = [int(x) for x in line.split(":")[1].strip().split()]
        self.all_options(numbers[1:], numbers[0])
        if self.target_found:
            return self.target
        return 0


def main() -> None:
    path = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Bridge Repair")
    parser.add_argument("filename", help="Path to the input file")
    args = parser.parse_args()
    sum_of_valid = [0, 0]
    with open(f"{path}/{args.filename}", "r") as f:
        for line in f:
            line = line.strip()
            target = int(line.split(":")[0])
            for idx, ops in enumerate([["+", "*"], ["+", "*", "||"]]):
                c = Calibrations(target, ops)
                found = c.process_line(line)
                sum_of_valid[idx] += found
                if found:
                    break
    for i in range(0, 2):
        part = i + 1
        print(
            "The sum of valid calibrations for Part "
            + f"{part} is {sum(sum_of_valid[:part])}"
        )


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

https://github.com/stevenviola/advent-of-code-2024

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

If you havent already done so, doing it in the form of "tree search", the code completes in the blink of an eye (though on a high end cpu 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-11800H @ 2.30GHz). posted the code below

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

python

45s on my machine for first shot, trying to break my will to brute force πŸ˜…. I'll try improving on it in a bit after I smoke another bowl and grab another drink.

solution

import itertools
import re
import aoc

def ltr(e):
    r = int(e[0])
    for i in range(1, len(e), 2):
        o = e[i]
        n = int(e[i + 1])
        if o == '+':
            r += n
        elif o == '*':
            r *= n
        elif o == '||':
            r = int(f"{r}{n}")
    return r

def pl(l, os):
    d = [int(x) for x in re.findall(r'\d+', l)]
    t, ns = d[0], d[1:]
    ops = list(itertools.product(os, repeat=len(ns) - 1))
    for o in ops:
        e = str(ns[0])
        for i, op in enumerate(o):
            e += f" {op} {ns[i + 1]}"
        r = ltr(e.split())
        if r == t:
            return r
    return 0

def one():
    lines = aoc.get_lines(7)
    acc = 0
    for l in lines:
        acc += pl(l, ['+', '*'])
    print(acc)

def two():
    lines = aoc.get_lines(7)
    acc = 0
    for l in lines:
        acc += pl(l, ['+', '*', '||'])
    print(acc)

one()
two()

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

What a horrible way to name variables

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

It's not a long lived project, it's a puzzle, and once solved never needs to run again. My objective here is to get the correct answer, not win a style contest.

Can you provide a link to your solution? I'd like to check it out.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

a e o, Killer Tofu. That's all I can think of reading this code.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

C#

public class Day07 : Solver
{
  private ImmutableList<(long, ImmutableList<long>)> equations;

  public void Presolve(string input) {
    equations = input.Trim().Split("\n")
      .Select(line => line.Split(": "))
      .Select(split => (long.Parse(split[0]), split[1].Split(" ").Select(long.Parse).ToImmutableList()))
      .ToImmutableList();
  }

  private bool TrySolveWithConcat(long lhs, long head, ImmutableList<long> tail) {
    var lhs_string = lhs.ToString();
    var head_string = head.ToString();
    return lhs_string.Length > head_string.Length &&
      lhs_string.EndsWith(head_string) &&
      SolveEquation(long.Parse(lhs_string.Substring(0, lhs_string.Length - head_string.Length)), tail, true);
  }

  private bool SolveEquation(long lhs, ImmutableList<long> rhs, bool with_concat = false) {
    if (rhs.Count == 1) return lhs == rhs[0];
    long head = rhs[rhs.Count - 1];
    var tail = rhs.GetRange(0, rhs.Count - 1);
    return (SolveEquation(lhs - head, tail, with_concat))
      || (lhs % head == 0) && SolveEquation(lhs / head, tail, with_concat)
      || with_concat && TrySolveWithConcat(lhs, head, tail);
  }

  public string SolveFirst() => equations
    .Where(eq => SolveEquation(eq.Item1, eq.Item2))
    .Select(eq => eq.Item1)
    .Sum().ToString();
  public string SolveSecond() => equations
    .Where(eq => SolveEquation(eq.Item1, eq.Item2, true))
    .Select(eq => eq.Item1)
    .Sum().ToString();
}
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Julia

Took quite some time to debug but in the end I think it's a nice solution using base 2 and 3 numbers counting up to check all operator combinations.

Code

function readInput(inputFile::String)::Vector{Vector{Int}}
	f = open(inputFile,"r")
	lines::Vector{String} = readlines(f)
	close(f)
	equations::Vector{Vector{Int}} = []
	function getValues(line::String)
		return map(sp->parse(Int,sp),(sp=split(line," ");sp[1]=sp[1][1:end-1];sp))
	end
	map(l->push!(equations,getValues(l)),lines)
	return equations
end

function checkEq(eq::Vector{Int},withConCat::Bool)::Bool
	function calcEq(eq::Vector{Int},operators::Vector{Int},withConCat::Bool)::Int
		res::Int = eq[2]
		for (i,op) in enumerate(operators)
			if op == 0 #+
				res += eq[i+2]
			elseif op ==1 #*
				res *= eq[i+2]
			else #op==2 ||
				res = parse(Int,string(res)*string(eq[i+2]))
			end
		end
		return res
	end
	opInt::Int = 0
	operators = Vector{Int}(undef,length(eq)-2)
	while opInt < (withConCat ? 3^(length(eq)-2) : 2^(length(eq)-2))
		withConCat==true ? operators=digits(opInt,base=3,pad=length(eq)-2) : operators=digits(opInt,base=2,pad=length(eq)-2)
		#calcEq(eq,operators,withConCat)==eq[1] ? (return true) : opInt -= 1
		calcEq(eq,operators,withConCat)==eq[1] ? (return true) : opInt += 1
	end
	return false
end

function calcTotCalRes(equations::Vector{Vector{Int}},withConCat::Bool)::Int
	totCalRes::Int = 0
	for e in equations
		checkEq(e,withConCat) ? totCalRes+=e[1] : nothing
	end
	return totCalRes
end

@info "Part 1"
println("result: $(calcTotCalRes(readInput("day07Input"),false))")
@info "Part 2"
println("result: $(calcTotCalRes(readInput("day07Input"),true))")

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Kotlin

I finally got around to doing day 7. I try the brute force method (takes several seconds), but I'm particularly proud of my sequence generator for operation permutations.

The Collection#rotate method is in the file Utils.kt, which can be found in my repo.

Solution

import kotlin.collections.any
import kotlin.math.pow

fun main() {
    fun part1(input: List<String>): Long {
        val operations = setOf(CalibrationOperation.Plus, CalibrationOperation.Multiply)
        return generalizedSolution(input, operations)
    }

    fun part2(input: List<String>): Long {
        val operations = setOf(CalibrationOperation.Plus, CalibrationOperation.Multiply, CalibrationOperation.Concat)
        return generalizedSolution(input, operations)
    }

    val testInput = readInput("Day07_test")
    check(part1(testInput) == 3749L)
    check(part2(testInput) == 11387L)

    val input = readInput("Day07")
    part1(input).println()
    part2(input).println()
}

fun parseInputDay7(input: List<String>) = input.map {
    val calibrationResultAndInput = it.split(':')
    calibrationResultAndInput[0].toLong() to calibrationResultAndInput[1].split(' ').filter { it != "" }.map { it.toLong() }
}

fun generalizedSolution(input: List<String>, operations: Set<CalibrationOperation>): Long {
    val parsedInput = parseInputDay7(input)
    val operationsPermutations = CalibrationOperation.operationPermutationSequence(*operations.toTypedArray()).take(calculatePermutationsNeeded(parsedInput, operations)).toList()
    return sumOfPossibleCalibrationEquations(parsedInput, operationsPermutations)
}

fun calculatePermutationsNeeded(parsedInput: List<Pair<Long, List<Long>>>, operations: Set<CalibrationOperation>): Int {
    val highestNumberOfOperations = parsedInput.maxOf { it.second.size - 1 }
    return (1..highestNumberOfOperations).sumOf { operations.size.toDouble().pow(it).toInt() }
}

fun sumOfPossibleCalibrationEquations(parsedInput: List<Pair<Long, List<Long>>>, operationPermutationCollection: Collection<OperationPermutation>): Long {
    val permutationsGrouped = operationPermutationCollection.groupBy { it.size }
    return parsedInput.sumOf { (equationResult, equationInput) ->
        if (permutationsGrouped[equationInput.size - 1]!!.any { operations ->
                equationResult == equationInput.drop(1)
                    .foldIndexed(equationInput[0]) { index, acc, lng -> operations[index](acc, lng) }
            }) equationResult else 0
    }
}

typealias OperationPermutation = List<CalibrationOperation>

sealed class CalibrationOperation(val operation: (Long, Long) -> Long) {
    operator fun invoke(a: Long, b: Long) = operation(a, b)
    object Plus : CalibrationOperation({ a: Long, b: Long -> a + b })
    object Multiply : CalibrationOperation({ a: Long, b: Long -> a * b })
    object Concat : CalibrationOperation({ a: Long, b: Long -> "$a$b".toLong() })

    companion object {
        fun operationPermutationSequence(vararg operations: CalibrationOperation) = sequence<OperationPermutation> {
            val cache = mutableListOf<OperationPermutation>()
            val calculateCacheRange = { currentLength: Int ->
                val sectionSize = operations.size.toDouble().pow(currentLength - 1).toInt()
                val sectionStart = (1 until currentLength - 1).sumOf { operations.size.toDouble().pow(it).toInt() }
                sectionStart..(sectionStart + sectionSize - 1)
            }

            // Populate the cache with initial values for permutation length 1.
            operations.forEach { operation -> yield(listOf(operation).also { cache.add(it) }) }

            var currentLength = 2
            var offset = 0
            var cacheRange = calculateCacheRange(currentLength)
            var rotatingOperations = operations.toList()
            yieldAll(
                generateSequence {
                    if (cacheRange.count() == offset) {
                        rotatingOperations = rotatingOperations.rotated(1)
                        if (rotatingOperations.first() == operations.first()) {
                            currentLength++
                        }

                        offset = 0
                        cacheRange = calculateCacheRange(currentLength)
                    }

                    val cacheSlice = cache.slice(cacheRange)

                    return@generateSequence (cacheSlice[offset] + rotatingOperations.first()).also {
                        cache += it
                        offset++
                    } 
                }
            )
        }
    }
}


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