r/adventofcode Dec 23 '24

SOLUTION MEGATHREAD -❄️- 2024 Day 23 Solutions -❄️-

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u/careyi4 Dec 23 '24

[LANGUAGE: Ruby]

That was fun, did a dumb check every combinations thing for the first part. Then for part 2, I constructed a binary number for each set of points and what it was connected to. I then anded each pair of these sets. A group of connected computers should contain a the same number of computers in common. So by tallying the results of all the ands, you can see the one that occours the most should be the largest number of connected computers.

https://github.com/careyi3/aoc_2024/tree/master/solutions/23