Day 3: Mull It Over
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We can take advantage of the manageable size of the input to avoid explicit looping and mutable state; instead, construct vectors which give, for each character position in the input, the position of the most recent
do()
and most recentdon't()
; for part 2 a multiplication is enabled if the position of the most recentdo()
(counting start of input as 0) is greater than that of the most recentdon't()
(counting start of input as minus infinity).