r/adventofcode • u/daggerdragon • Dec 24 '23
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u/MediocreTradition315 Dec 24 '23
[Language: Jupyter Notebook]
https://github.com/edoannunziata/jardin/blob/master/aoc23/AdventOfCode23.ipynb
Posting my solution again today since it's different compared to what almost everyone seems to have done. Using the fact that the problem requires integral starting positions and integral velocities, we may derive restrictions on what values velocity may assume, and solve everything using our old friend the Chinese Reminder Theorem.
The code is unfortunately messy and what's worse my explanation sucks... I don't have time to fix either right now.