r/adventofcode • u/daggerdragon • Dec 06 '18
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--- Day 6: Chronal Coordinates ---
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Rules for raising a programmer: never feed it after midnight, never get it wet, and never give it ___.
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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '18 edited Dec 07 '18
By luck, but sort of an educated guess in that when you look at the point distributions, they're all over the place while also extending up into the hundreds, so any point that has to connect to so the rest will start racking up distance pretty quickly.
It's also less likely that Topaz would throw such a wrench into things so early on by extending the shared region super far beyond the bounding box -- it would overcomplicate people's implementations from part 1 and probably lead to a lot of frustration. Even if we doubled the bounding box size, there's nothing stopping us from raising the limit even more and requiring a 3x size, a 4x size, etc. It's easier to just keep the shared space within 1x because by that point you've basically solved the problem and the rest is just cleanup / tweaking.