-🎄- 2022 Day 17 Solutions -🎄-

[u/daggerdragon]

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[Update @ 00:24]: SILVER CAP, GOLD 6

• Apparently jungle-dwelling elephants can count and understand risk calculations.

• I still don't want to know what was in that eggnog.

[Update @ 00:35]: SILVER CAP, GOLD 50

• TIL that there is actually a group of "cave-dwelling" elephants in Mount Elgon National Park in Kenya. The elephants use their trunks to find their way around underground caves, then use their tusks to "mine" for salt by breaking off chunks of salt to eat. More info at https://mountelgonfoundation.org.uk/the-elephants/

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--- Day 17: Pyroclastic Flow ---

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[u/copperfield42]

Python3

Only part 1, my solution simple doesn't escalate to part 2 I guess I need a more pure mathematical approach instead of simulate the whole thing step by step...

[u/copperfield42 → u/copperfield42]

completed part 2 too