Day 11: Plutonian Pebbles

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FAQ

  • Gobbel2000@programming.dev
    3·
    12 days ago

    Rust

    Part 2 is solved with recursion and a cache, which is indexed by stone numbers and remaining rounds and maps to the previously calculated expansion size. In my case, the cache only grew to 139320 entries, which is quite reasonable given the size of the result.

    Solution 
    use std::collections::HashMap;

fn parse(input: String) -> Vec<u64> {
    input
        .split_whitespace()
        .map(|w| w.parse().unwrap())
        .collect()
}

fn part1(input: String) {
    let mut stones = parse(input);
    for _ in 0..25 {
        let mut new_stones = Vec::with_capacity(stones.len());
        for s in &stones {
            match s {
                0 => new_stones.push(1),
                n => {
                    let digits = s.ilog10() + 1;
                    if digits % 2 == 0 {
                        let cutoff = 10u64.pow(digits / 2);
                        new_stones.push(n / cutoff);
                        new_stones.push(n % cutoff);
                    } else {
                        new_stones.push(n * 2024)
                    }
                }
            }
        }
        stones = new_stones;
    }
    println!("{}", stones.len());
}

fn expansion(s: u64, rounds: u32, cache: &mut HashMap<(u64, u32), u64>) -> u64 {
    // Recursion anchor
    if rounds == 0 {
        return 1;
    }
    // Calculation is already cached
    if let Some(res) = cache.get(&(s, rounds)) {
        return *res;
    }

    // Recurse
    let res = match s {
        0 => expansion(1, rounds - 1, cache),
        n => {
            let digits = s.ilog10() + 1;
            if digits % 2 == 0 {
                let cutoff = 10u64.pow(digits / 2);
                expansion(n / cutoff, rounds - 1, cache) +
                expansion(n % cutoff, rounds - 1, cache)
            } else {
                expansion(n * 2024, rounds - 1, cache)
            }
        }
    };
    // Save in cache
    cache.insert((s, rounds), res);
    res
}

fn part2(input: String) {
    let stones = parse(input);
    let mut cache = HashMap::new();
    let sum: u64 = stones.iter().map(|s| expansion(*s, 75, &mut cache)).sum();
    println!("{sum}");
}

util::aoc_main!();

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