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Advent of Code 2020 - BaseA Style (Day 18)

Jean-Balteryx
16 - Nebula
16 - Nebula

Discussion thread for day 18 of the Advent of Code : https://adventofcode.com/2020/day/18

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danilang
19 - Altair
19 - Altair

This may be one of the rare cases where Part 2 took me less time to finish than part 1!!  Both parts run in 0.5 seconds

 

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It was a relatively trivial matter to modify the Part 1 macro to calculate the + before the X.  Just added logic to iterate the additions then the multiplication before changing the indent level.  
Steph_Maddrell
8 - Asteroid

Part 1:

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Part 1 Macro:

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Part 2:

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Part 2 Macro:

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