DAY 10 - Advent of Code 2020 w/ GoLang
Edvin
Posted on December 11, 2020
DAY10:
Woof. Be warned, part one is DECIEVINGLY simple. Part two had me thinking about implementing a binary tree, which in Go gets terribly verbose. Half-ish way through that approach, I dumped it and started over. Then attempted to recurse while removing indexes after they'd been evaluated. That eventually evolved into implementing a sliding window recursion approach. I slid and evaluated on if the index landed within the acceptable joltage range. ALSO, don't forget the built-ins.
package days
import (
"fmt"
"sort"
inputs "../inputs"
)
// https://adventofcode.com/2020/day/10
// Ten : advent of code, day ten part1 and 2
func Ten() {
inputSlice := inputs.Day10
// Adding in built-ins and sorting
inputSlice = append(inputSlice, 0)
sort.Ints(inputSlice)
inputSlice = append(inputSlice, inputSlice[len(inputSlice)-1]+3)
fmt.Print("(Part1) - result from multipling the 1 and 3 jolt jumps in the total adapter path: ")
fmt.Println(numberOfOneAndThreeJoltJumpsInAdapterPath(inputSlice))
fmt.Print("(Part2) - Number of adapter paths that result in the max joltage of is : ")
fmt.Println(evaluateAdapterPath(inputSlice, 0))
}
func numberOfOneAndThreeJoltJumpsInAdapterPath(adapterSlice []int) int {
ones := 0
threes := 0
for joltage := 0; joltage < len(adapterSlice)-1; joltage++ {
if adapterSlice[joltage+1]-adapterSlice[joltage] == 1 {
ones++
} else if adapterSlice[joltage+1]-adapterSlice[joltage] == 3 {
threes++
}
}
return ones * threes
}
var adapterPathsTried = make(map[int]int)
func evaluateAdapterPath(adaptersTocheck []int, startAdapter int) int {
workingAdapterPaths := 0
nextAdapter := startAdapter + 1
furthestPossibleAdapter := startAdapter + 3
if furthestPossibleAdapter >= len(adaptersTocheck) {
return 1
} else if _, ok := adapterPathsTried[adaptersTocheck[startAdapter]]; ok {
return adapterPathsTried[adaptersTocheck[startAdapter]]
}
for i := nextAdapter; i <= furthestPossibleAdapter; i++ {
lower := adaptersTocheck[startAdapter]
upper := adaptersTocheck[i]
if (upper-lower) >= 1 && (upper-lower) <= 3 {
workingAdapterPaths += evaluateAdapterPath(adaptersTocheck, i)
}
}
adapterPathsTried[adaptersTocheck[startAdapter]] = workingAdapterPaths
return workingAdapterPaths
}
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Edvin
Posted on December 11, 2020
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