Day 22: Monkey Market

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  • @[email protected]
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    418 hours ago

    Rust

    Nice breather today (still traumatized from the robots). At some point I thought you had to do some magic for predicting special properties of the pseudorandom function, but no, just collect all values, have a big table for all sequences and in the end take the maximum value in that table. Part 1 takes 6.7ms, part 2 19.2ms.

    Solution
    fn step(n: u32) -> u32 {
        let a = (n ^ (n << 6)) % (1 << 24);
        let b = a ^ (a >> 5);
        (b ^ (b << 11)) % (1 << 24)
    }
    
    fn part1(input: String) {
        let sum = input
            .lines()
            .map(|l| {
                let n = l.parse().unwrap();
                (0..2000).fold(n, |acc, _| step(acc)) as u64
            })
            // More than 2¹⁰ 24-bit numbers requires 35 bits
            .sum::<u64>();
        println!("{sum}");
    }
    
    const N_SEQUENCES: usize = 19usize.pow(4);
    
    fn sequence_key(sequence: &[i8]) -> usize {
        sequence
            .iter()
            .enumerate()
            .map(|(i, x)| (x + 9) as usize * 19usize.pow(i as u32))
            .sum()
    }
    
    fn part2(input: String) {
        // Table for collecting the amount of bananas for every possible sequence
        let mut table = vec![0; N_SEQUENCES];
        // Mark the sequences we encountered in a round to ensure that only the first occurence is used
        let mut seen = vec![false; N_SEQUENCES];
        for l in input.lines() {
            let n = l.parse().unwrap();
            let (diffs, prices): (Vec<i8>, Vec<u8>) = (0..2000)
                .scan(n, |acc, _| {
                    let next = step(*acc);
                    let diff = (next % 10) as i8 - (*acc % 10) as i8;
                    *acc = next;
                    Some((diff, (next % 10) as u8))
                })
                .unzip();
            for (window, price) in diffs.windows(4).zip(prices.iter().skip(3)) {
                let key = sequence_key(window);
                if !seen[key] {
                    seen[key] = true;
                    table[key] += *price as u32;
                }
            }
            // Reset seen sequences for next round
            seen.fill(false);
        }
        let bananas = table.iter().max().unwrap();
        println!("{bananas}");
    }
    
    util::aoc_main!();
    

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    • Deebster
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      316 hours ago

      How have I never noticed that scan() exists? Very handy.

      I liked the zipping of the offset prices, neater than my helper method.