Challenge #61: Save the Astronaut

[jbranaum]

My solution.

Ended up about 20 secs lower than the output solution in the starting file, but am reasonably confident on the approach. 

Assuming we dont include the last period in the message and we stop for 1 second at each arrival point to distinguish it as the letter of interest.

Note, if I was really trying to be as fast as possible I would probably title case the message and remove all white space.  We save a significant amount of time doing that.

[Kenda]

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I built my workflow so that my answer would match the solution provided in seconds and minutes.

[ipeng]

This is a very interesting exercise. The main challenges are 1. understand how HEX works, and 2. the rover can turn clockwise or counterclockwise, whichever is faster. 

[KeithTroutt]

I assumed that the Camera would need to stop at each position 1 second which is why my results are about 2 minutes longer than the solution results. This was a fun challenge. 

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[OllieClarke]

I should RTFQ, couldn't work out why my answer was so different until I saw that the message finishes on the last letter(which I took to mean full stop)

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[RichoBsJ]

Hi! Here my solution :)

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It took 90 exact seconds more than the provided solution....no clue why, I think my solution is ok haha

[RolandSchubert]

My solution

[cplewis90]

This was an extremely complicated one for me as I couldn't figure out how to get the shortest distance to return in the calculation (ex: going from position 1 to 16 is not 15 spaces, but 2). I ended up stopping where I was a few weeks ago and finally revisited the problem and boom the answer came to me. Always funny how that works sometimes.

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My answer was slightly higher than provided at 40.78 vs 40.59 minutes and I think it is the difference in method of solving. 

[KMiller]

Solution attached

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[calampert]

This was a ton of fun!