Day 4: Scratchcards


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[JavaScript] Swapped over to javascript from rust since I want to also practice some js. Managed to get part 1 in 4 minutes and got top 400 on the global leaderboard. Second part took a bit longer and took me 13 mins since I messed up by originally trying to append to the card array. (eventually swapped to keeping track of amounts in a separate array)

Part 1
// Part 1
// ======

function part1(input) {
  const lines = input.split("\n");
  let sum = 0;

  for (const line of lines) {
    const content = line.split(":")[1];
    const winningNums = content.split("|")[0].match(/\d+/g);
    const myNums = content.split("|")[1].match(/\d+/g);

    let cardSum = 0;

    for (const num of winningNums) {
      if (myNums.includes(num)) {
        if (cardSum == 0) {
          cardSum = 1;
        } else {
          cardSum = cardSum * 2;
        }
      }
    }

    sum = sum + cardSum;
  }

  return sum;
}
Part 2
// Part 2
// ======

function part2(input) {
  let lines = input.split("\n");
  let amount = Array(lines.length).fill(1);

  for (const [i, line] of lines.entries()) {
    const content = line.split(":")[1];
    const winningNums = content.split("|")[0].match(/\d+/g);
    const myNums = content.split("|")[1].match(/\d+/g);

    let cardSum = 0;

    for (const num of winningNums) {
      if (myNums.includes(num)) {
        cardSum += 1;
      }
    }

    for (let j = 1; j <= cardSum; j++) {
      if (i + j >= lines.length) {
        break;
      }
      amount[i + j] += amount[i];
    }
  }

  return lines.reduce((acc, line, i) => {
    return acc + amount[i];
  }, 0);
}

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Improvement I found afterwards:

  • Could have done a reduce on the amount array instead of the lines array since I don’t use the line value at all
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Haskell

11:39 – I spent most of the time reading the scoring rules and (as usual) writing a parser…

import Control.Monad
import Data.Bifunctor
import Data.List

readCard :: String -> ([Int], [Int])
readCard =
  join bimap (map read) . second tail . break (== "|") . words . tail . dropWhile (/= ':')

countShared = length . uncurry intersect

part1 = sum . map ((\n -> if n > 0 then 2 ^ (n - 1) else 0) . countShared)

part2 = sum . foldr ((\n a -> 1 + sum (take n a) : a) . countShared) []

main = do
  input <- map readCard . lines <$> readFile "input04"
  print $ part1 input
  print $ part2 input
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Still trying to make sense of it but that part two fold is just jummy!

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I’m really impressed by your part 2. And I thought my solution was short…

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Not familiar with Lean4 but it looks like the same approach. High five!

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Ruby

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Somehow took way longer on the second part than the first part trying a recursive approach and then realizing that was dumb.

https://github.com/snowe2010/advent-of-code/blob/master/ruby_aoc/2023/day04/day04.rb

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(python) Much easier than day 3.

code
import pathlib

base_dir = pathlib.Path(__file__).parent
filename = base_dir / "day4_input.txt"

with open(base_dir / filename) as f:
    lines = f.read().splitlines()

score = 0

extra_cards = [0 for _ in lines]
n_cards = [1 for _ in lines]

for i, line in enumerate(lines):
    _, numbers = line.split(":")
    winning, have = numbers.split(" | ")

    winning_numbers = {int(n) for n in winning.split()}
    have_numbers = {int(n) for n in have.split()}

    have_winning_numbers = winning_numbers & have_numbers
    n_matches = len(have_winning_numbers)

    if n_matches:
        score += 2 ** (n_matches - 1)

    j = i + 1
    for _ in range(n_matches):
        if j >= len(lines):
            break
        n_cards[j] += n_cards[i]
        j += 1

answer_p1 = score
print(f"{answer_p1=}")

answer_p2 = sum(n_cards)
print(f"{answer_p2=}")
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Factor on github (with comments and imports):

: line>cards ( line -- winning-nums player-nums )
  ":|" split rest
  [
    [ CHAR: space = ] trim
    split-words harvest [ string>number ] map
  ] map first2
;

: points ( winning-nums player-nums -- n )
  intersect length
  dup 0 > [ 1 - 2^ ] when
;

: part1 ( -- )
  "vocab:aoc-2023/day04/input.txt" utf8 file-lines
  [ line>cards points ] map-sum .
;

: follow-card ( i commons -- n )
  [ 1 ] 2dip
  2dup nth swapd
  over + (a..b]
  [ over follow-card ] map-sum
  nip +
;

: part2 ( -- )
  "vocab:aoc-2023/day04/input.txt" utf8 file-lines
  [ line>cards intersect length ] map
  dup length  swap '[ _ follow-card ]
  map-sum .
;
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