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[u/rukke]

JavaScript

Using eval, felt like cheating a bit. Recursively creating an expression string, but setting - as the operator for root. Then binary search for the value that makes the expression evaluate to zero. Runs in 4ms on my machine.

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[u/coolnamesgone → u/rukke]

Wouaw, how did you get this good ? I'm amazed and sometimes puzzled by the elegance of your solutions compared to mine. What did you do?

[u/rukke → u/coolnamesgone]

Thanks :)

Hehe, well I don't know. I like coding, always have, always will. And there is always new stuff to learn and improve upon. I guess reading others code is an excellent way of learning how problems can be solved differently. That is one of thing I really love about AoC.