Day 1: Historian Hysteria
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FAQ
- What is this?: Here is a post with a large amount of details: https://programming.dev/post/22323136
- Where do I participate?: https://adventofcode.com/
- Is there a leaderboard for the community?: We have a programming.dev leaderboard with the info on how to join in this post: https://programming.dev/post/6631465
You are using some interesting techniques there. I never imaged you could use the result of == for adding to a counter.
But how did you handle duplicates in part 2?
I’m not sure if I understand the question correctly but for every number in the left array I count in the right array. That means duplicate work but shrug 😅