Advent of Code 2024 Day 7 (BaseA Style)

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Discussion thread for day 7 of the Advent of Code - https://adventofcode.com/2024/day/7

[Spainey]

At first I didn't fully understand the question and was stopping once the target was reached even if there were numbers remaining. Led to a long time spent debugging. 

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[Goddenra]

Went down a Mod rabbit hole (mainly because that's how I'd do it in VBA) before deciding the iterative approach would be easier. One of my neater ones, which is nice!

[estherb47]

Dare I say I enjoyed this one?

Took tips from @gawa and went the binary route for Part 1.

And thank you Andrew Merrill for helping me understand how Part 2 could work. Solving was then easy once I figured out a way to create ternary numbers (sans macro!)

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[JeffF]

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This turned out to be easier than I originally thought. My part 1 macro required very little modification for part 2. Total runtime is under 10 seconds.



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[lwolfie]

I went down a couple different paths before landing on this one.

[Pilsner]

My solution:

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