Oct 20, 2026, 2:20 PMThis isn't so bad either except the forking *continues*; I'm quickly testing 3 parallel worlds, then one dies off. I basically manage until I hit digit 14 of 16, which turns out to have **six** different next options. I sort of do my best from there and eventually find a number: 165523097481149 (octal 4550533133267675).
It's wrong. It's too high. There are apparently multiple correct solutions, and AOC guy (so says the problem solution) wants the *lowest*. Which I fumbled.
Looks like you work with the program 2,4,1,1,7,5,1,5,4,1,5,5,0,3,3,0 for which 0o4550533133267675 actually is a solution.
But AOC (https://adventofcode.com/2024/day/17/input) uses the program 2,4,1,2,7,5,1,7,4,4,0,3,5,5,3,0
Oct 20, 2026, 3:55 PM@hcschuetz first off, I'd appreciate answers being behind spoiler tags!
Second off every AOC participant gets individualized inputs specifically to prevent answer sharing like this.
@mcc
I hope my previous post didn't spoiler too much. After all you already had this number.
And thanks for the hint about individualized inputs. Wasn't aware of this.