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

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Rules/Guidelines

• Follow the programming.dev instance rules
• 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

• [email protected]
• [email protected]

Relevant Links

• Advent of Code Homepage

Credits

Icon base by Lorc under CC BY 3.0 with modifications to add a gradient

console.log('Hello World')

MODERATORS

const fs = require("fs");
const U = require("./util");

const pairs = fs
    .readFileSync(process.argv[2] || process.stdin.fd, "utf8")
    .split("\n")
    .filter(x => x != "")
    .map(x => x.split(/ +/).map(Number));

const ls = pairs.map(x => x[0]); ls.sort();
const rs = pairs.map(x => x[1]); rs.sort();

const p1 = U.sum(ls.map((l, i) => Math.abs(l - rs[i])));
const p2 = U.sum(ls.map(l => l * U.count(rs, l)));

console.log("01:", p1, p2);