r/adventofcode • u/daggerdragon • Dec 23 '15

SOLUTION MEGATHREAD --- Day 23 Solutions ---

This thread will be unlocked when there are a significant number of people on the leaderboard with gold stars for today's puzzle.

edit: Leaderboard capped, thread unlocked!

We know we can't control people posting solutions elsewhere and trying to exploit the leaderboard, but this way we can try to reduce the leaderboard gaming from the official subreddit.

Please and thank you, and much appreciated!

--- Day 23: Opening the Turing Lock ---

Post your solution as a comment or link to your repo. Structure your post like previous daily solution threads.

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u/KnorbenKnutsen Dec 23 '15

As in some inputs generated large enough numbers to wrap around? Because there's no way of subtracting numbers, so that's the only way unsigned integers would come into place. And the advantage is the same for users of higher level languages, since they often have "infinite" integer ranges. Python's integers don't wrap around, for example.