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Advent of Code 2024 Day 1 (BaseA Style)

MeganBowers
Alteryx Alumni (Retired)

Discussion thread for day 1 of the Advent of Code - https://adventofcode.com/2024/day/1

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NeoInfiniTech
11 - Bolide

Solution is attached. 

 

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patrick_digan
17 - Castor
17 - Castor
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SeanAdams
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

Great way to get the party started, and a fun way to use the tools that we don't often get - see spoiler below.

 

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The only odd thing here is splitting the records and doing a join by position in part 1 - we don't often get to do join by position, so this is fun.
Part 2 is a deliberate join explosion - generally you want to avoid this :-)
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all full solutions are kept here: SeanAdams10/AdventOfCodePython: Advent of code challenges in Python - across multiple years if you need them.
SeanAdams
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

Great observation on part 2 @gawa - it's like tool golf!

SeanAdams
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

first solution posted rocking that Dark Mode @BS_THE_ANALYST  - @NicoleJ will be proud!

Medha31
8 - Asteroid

My Solution:

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binu_acs
21 - Polaris
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Samantha_Jayne
Alteryx
Alteryx

And we are back!!!

 

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Samantha Clifton
Alteryx
#alteryxrocks
Kenda
16 - Nebula
16 - Nebula
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ahsanaali
11 - Bolide
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