From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_50 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 X-Received: by 2002:a37:9b04:: with SMTP id d4mr48017246qke.408.1609220158747; Mon, 28 Dec 2020 21:35:58 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 2002:ac8:6f77:: with SMTP id u23mr48076227qtv.118.1609220158528; Mon, 28 Dec 2020 21:35:58 -0800 (PST) Path: eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder1.feed.usenet.farm!feed.usenet.farm!feeder.usenetexpress.com!tr3.iad1.usenetexpress.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news-out.google.com!nntp.google.com!postnews.google.com!google-groups.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2020 21:35:58 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: google-groups.googlegroups.com; posting-host=173.71.207.183; posting-account=JSxOkAoAAADa00TJoz2WZ_46XrZCdXeS NNTP-Posting-Host: 173.71.207.183 References: User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <88703769-07fd-466f-8ed9-816bad74c57dn@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Advent of Code, Day 23 From: John Perry Injection-Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2020 05:35:58 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:60972 List-Id: On Monday, December 28, 2020 at 4:48:17 PM UTC-5, John Perry wrote: > (For those who are interested. I'm a bit behind, but I don't think anyone else on Maxim's list has finished, either.) Correction: Gautier de Montmollin finished, and I somehow missed that. For what it's worth, Day 24 is actually straightforward, so long as you can figure out a hexagonal map. Maxim Reznik's solution avoids the guess-and-check I applied to determine the playing field's size (which was not given, interesting enough).