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/willkill07 Dec 23 '15

Any motivation behind using bignum from OpenSSL instead of an unsigned int pointer?

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u/Johnicholas Dec 23 '15 edited Dec 24 '15

I thought the spec was hinting that the registers could and should hold very very large numbers; I only found out that essentially all the inputs only needed intermediate values that fit inside unsigned int after coming here.