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Advent of Code 2024 Day 2 (BaseA Style)

MeganBowers
Alteryx Community Team
Alteryx Community Team

Discussion thread for day 2 of the Advent of Code - https://adventofcode.com/2024/day/2

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Shifty
12 - Quasar

Day 2. 

 

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w_gore
8 - Asteroid

I am keeping it linear.  Here is my solution.  I am using AI to generate a dataset since I can't seem to locate a packaged dataset.

CailinS
Alteryx
Alteryx

Thanks to @gawa for your solution. While I took a different approach, I used yours to check my input and determine which specific records were causing me to not get the correct count. I found my issue and am so grateful to have final solved part 2!

 

It is messy but my solution is attached. Here are screenshots too:

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Cailin Swingle
Customer Experience
DawnDuong
13 - Pulsar
13 - Pulsar

Day 2 is still manageable without a macro

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