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Advent of Code 2023 Day 2 (BaseA Style)

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Discussion thread for day 2 of the Advent of Code - https://adventofcode.com/2023/day/2

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gawa
16 - Nebula
16 - Nebula

It was moderate one, and manageable.

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kelsey_kincaid
12 - Quasar
12 - Quasar

This was a nice change for Day 2 after a rough Day 1!

 

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Part 1: Mostly just a parsing exercise. Probably could have done this in fewer tools with RegEx, but it was faster to use Text to Columns repeatedly since RegEx makes my head hurt.

Part 2: Just had to take the max number of cubes for each color used in each game and multiply them together. No big twists made me paranoid I was missing something, but I guess Eric decided to give us a nice Part 2 after yesterday. I'm guessing this just means tomorrow will be even trickier!

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DaisukeTsuchiya
14 - Magnetar

Easier then yesterday's one.

 

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caltang
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

Much better than yesterday!

 

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Calvin Tang
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Qiu
21 - Polaris
21 - Polaris

Cost me time since did not read the instruction carefully ennough. 😁

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Tokimatsu
12 - Quasar

Done.

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joshbennett
11 - Bolide
11 - Bolide

Nice to have part 2 be easier than part 1 once in a while.

 

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Watermark
12 - Quasar
12 - Quasar

Not elegant, but got the job done. 

 

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NicoleJ
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Alteryx

It's been a good, good day... because I got to use a new feature from 23.2 Designer release (with the Custom Workflow Template I saved earlier today to use as my quick starting point every day for Advent of Code with a data download macro & input switcher)... AND then I also found a way to use not one, not two, but THREE new functions available in the 23.2 release as well! It feels like Christmas already!! 😁

 

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Annotated the cleaned up/tool golf version with notes. I went for speed, not beauty, for the stars... and then went back to clean it up because 4 Text to Columns tools just felt a little ridiculous. 🤣

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Cheers!
NJ
Sr. Manager, Product Management, Designer
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