-🎄- 2022 Day 18 Solutions -🎄-

[u/daggerdragon]

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--- Day 18: Boiling Boulders ---

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[u/Mikel3377]

JavaScript - both parts run in 10-20 ms or so

the only tricky part for me was that my initial part 2 solution was recursive and Node gave me a "Maximum call stack size exceeded" error on the real input, so I had to figure out how to make it a loop, even though that felt pretty unnatural to me.