Discussion thread for day 6 of the Advent of Code - https://adventofcode.com/2023/day/6
Holiday feel compare to day 5.
My solution:
I decided to go for the iterative solution on part 1 and then formed and solved a quadratic equation with inequalities for part 2. I formed and solved the equation of one of the examples, I'll attach some workings out for anyone trying to do something similar:
I did try to iterate part 2 out of laziness. It was like 2trillion iterations at max, this exceeded the maximum number allowed in Alteryx apparently
Just realized I hadn't posted the D6 fluffy bunny (as opposed to Cerberus from day 5)
Compared to the previous (spicy) days, I'm all a-boat this one!
Done!
Learned a new word 'Kerning'
After a few Part One only's, this was nice to complete. My solution 😊:
Looks like I overwrote Part 1 with Part 2
I post again with solution in yxdb.
So much easier than Day 5 🙃
Getting back into it with an easy one!
I think I'm 5/5 on AoC solves so far that allowed me to use new formula functions available since 23.2 😁 Product in the Summarize tool in particular has been SURPRISINGLY useful!!
Not sure if it is too late to share solutions, but here is what I came up with last month:
