Advent Of Code

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An unofficial home for the advent of code community on programming.dev!

Advent of Code is an annual Advent calendar of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill sets and skill levels that can be solved in any programming language you like.

AoC 2024

Solution Threads

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• Keep all content related to advent of code in some way
• If what youre posting relates to a day, put in brackets the year and then day number in front of the post title (e.g. [2024 Day 10])
• When an event is running, keep solutions in the solution megathread to avoid the community getting spammed with posts

Relevant Communities

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Relevant Links

• Advent of Code Homepage

Credits

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console.log('Hello World')

MODERATORS

ids = """<multiline input string>"""
ids = [pair.split(" ") for pair in ids.split("\n")]
left = [int(t[0]) for t in ids]
right = [int(t[-1]) for t in ids]
left.sort()
right.sort()
print(sum(abs(l - r) for l, r in zip(left, right)))

# 2
s = 0
for l in left:
    s += right.count(l) * l
print(s)