Day 1: Historian Hysteria
Megathread guidelines
- Keep top level comments as only solutions, if you want to say something other than a solution put it in a new post. (replies to comments can be whatever)
- You can send code in code blocks by using three backticks, the code, and then three backticks or use something such as https://blocks.programming.dev if you prefer sending it through a URL
FAQ
- What is this?: Here is a post with a large amount of details: https://programming.dev/post/22323136
- Where do I participate?: https://adventofcode.com/
- Is there a leaderboard for the community?: We have a programming.dev leaderboard with the info on how to join in this post: https://programming.dev/post/6631465
TypeScript
Solution
import { AdventOfCodeSolutionFunction } from "./solutions"; function InstancesOf(sorted_array: Array<number>, value: number) { const index = sorted_array.indexOf(value); if(index == -1) return 0; let sum = 1; for (let array_index = index + 1; array_index < sorted_array.length; array_index++) { if(sorted_array[array_index] != value) break; sum += 1; } return sum; } export const solution_1: AdventOfCodeSolutionFunction = (input) => { const left: Array<number> = []; const right: Array<number> = []; const lines = input.split("\n"); for (let index = 0; index < lines.length; index++) { const element = lines[index].trim(); if(!element) continue; const leftRight = element.split(" "); left.push(Number(leftRight[0])); right.push(Number(leftRight[1])); } const numSort = (a: number, b: number) => a - b; left.sort(numSort); right.sort(numSort); let sum = 0; for (let index = 0; index < left.length; index++) { const leftValue = left[index]; const rightValue = right[index]; sum += Math.abs(leftValue - rightValue); } const part1 = `Part 1: ${sum}`; sum = 0; for (let index = 0; index < left.length; index++) { sum += left[index] * InstancesOf(right, left[index]); } const part2 = `Part 2: ${sum}`; return `${part1}\n${part2}`; };
Not the most elegant solution but it works. Decided to reuse the array since it is sorted for both sides.