Day 23: LAN Party
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FAQ
- What is this?: Here is a post with a large amount of details: https://programming.dev/post/6637268
- 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
Kotlin
Part1 was pretty simple, just check all neighbors of a node for overlap, then filter out triples which don’t have nodes beginning with ‘t’.
For part2, I seem to have picked a completely different strategy to everyone else. I was a bit lost, then just boldly assumed, that if I take overlap of all triples with 1 equal node, I might be able to find the answer that way. To my surprise, this worked for my input. I’d be very curious to know if I just got lucky or if the puzzle is designed to work with this approach.
The full code is also on GitHub.
Solution
That’s a fun approach. The largest totally connected group will of course contain overlapping triples, so I think you’re effectively doing the same thing as checking a node at a time, just more efficiently.