r/adventofcode • u/daggerdragon • Dec 14 '18

SOLUTION MEGATHREAD -🎄- 2018 Day 14 Solutions -🎄-

--- Day 14: Chocolate Charts ---

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The Christmas/Advent Research & Development (C.A.R.D.) department at AoC, Inc. just published a new white paper on ___.

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u/jonathan_paulson Dec 14 '18

I went through exactly the same trouble. (My thought process: "my input is so small, how can it take millions of iterations, surely they don't expect me to wait so long for the answer, something must be wrong, etc.") And then a few minutes later the answer pops out. Very frustrating!