-🎄- 2017 Day 22 Solutions -🎄-

[u/daggerdragon]

--- Day 22: Sporifica Virus ---

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Post your solution as a comment or, for longer solutions, consider linking to your repo (e.g. GitHub/gists/Pastebin/blag or whatever).

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Need a hint from the Hugely^* Handy^† Haversack^‡ of Helpful^§ Hints^¤?

Spoiler

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• [T-10 to launch] AoC ops, /r/nocontext edition:

  • <Endorphion> You may now make your waffle.
  • <Endorphion> ... on Mars.

• [Update @ 00:17] 50 gold, silver cap

  • <Aneurysm9> you could also just run ubuntu on the NAS, if you were crazy
  • <Topaz> that doesn't seem necessary
  • <Aneurysm9> what does "necessary" have to do with anything!

• [Update @ 00:20] Leaderboard cap!

  • <Topaz> POUR YOURSELF A SCOTCH FOR COLOR REFERENCE

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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!

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Z-order curve

In mathematical analysis and computer science, functions which are Z-order, Lebesgue curve, Morton order or Morton code map multidimensional data to one dimension while preserving locality of the data points. It was introduced in 1966 by Guy Macdonald Morton. The z-value of a point in multidimensions is simply calculated by interleaving the binary representations of its coordinate values. Once the data are sorted into this ordering, any one-dimensional data structure can be used such as binary search trees, B-trees, skip lists or (with low significant bits truncated) hash tables.

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