Day 6: Wait for It


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  • capitalpb@programming.dev
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    11 months ago

    A nice simple one today. And only a half second delay for part two instead of half an hour. What a treat. I could probably have nicer input parsing, but that seems to be the theme this year, so that will become a big focus of my next round through these I’m guessing. The algorithm here to get the winning possibilities could also probably be improved upon by figuring out what the number of seconds for the current record is, and only looping from there until hitting a number that doesn’t win, as opposed to brute-forcing the whole loop.

    https://github.com/capitalpb/advent_of_code_2023/blob/main/src/solvers/day06.rs

    #[derive(Debug)]
    struct Race {
        time: u64,
        distance: u64,
    }
    
    impl Race {
        fn possible_ways_to_win(&self) -> usize {
            (0..=self.time)
                .filter(|time| time * (self.time - time) > self.distance)
                .count()
        }
    }
    
    pub struct Day06;
    
    impl Solver for Day06 {
        fn star_one(&self, input: &str) -> String {
            let mut race_data = input
                .lines()
                .map(|line| {
                    line.split_once(':')
                        .unwrap()
                        .1
                        .split_ascii_whitespace()
                        .filter_map(|number| number.parse::().ok())
                        .collect::>()
                })
                .collect::>();
    
            let times = race_data.pop().unwrap();
            let distances = race_data.pop().unwrap();
    
            let races = distances
                .into_iter()
                .zip(times)
                .map(|(time, distance)| Race { time, distance })
                .collect::>();
    
            races
                .iter()
                .map(|race| race.possible_ways_to_win())
                .fold(1, |acc, count| acc * count)
                .to_string()
        }
    
        fn star_two(&self, input: &str) -> String {
            let race_data = input
                .lines()
                .map(|line| {
                    line.split_once(':')
                        .unwrap()
                        .1
                        .replace(" ", "")
                        .parse::()
                        .unwrap()
                })
                .collect::>();
    
            let race = Race {
                time: race_data[0],
                distance: race_data[1],
            };
    
            race.possible_ways_to_win().to_string()
        }
    }