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Matthew Butterick 9 years ago
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@include-section[(submod "day16.rkt" doc)]
@include-section[(submod "day17.rkt" doc)]
@include-section[(submod "day18.rkt" doc)]
@include-section[(submod "day19.rkt" doc)]
@include-section[(submod "day19.rkt" doc)]
@include-section[(submod "day20.rkt" doc)]

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#lang scribble/lp2
@(require scribble/manual aoc-racket/helper)
@aoc-title[20]
@defmodule[aoc-racket/day20]
@link["http://adventofcode.com/day/20"]{The puzzle}. Our @link-rp["day20-input.txt"]{input} is a target number of presents, in this case @racket[36000000].
@chunk[<day20>
<day20-setup>
<day20-q1>
<day20-q2>
<day20-test>]
@section{What's the first house that gets the target number of presents?}
The puzzle imagines infinite elves delivering presents to an infinite sequence of houses. (Already @link["http://practicaltypography.com/the-infinite-pixel-screen.html"]{I like} this puzzle.) The first elf delivers a present to every house equal to 10 times his number (= 10); the second elf, 20 gifts to every second house; the @italic{n}th elf, 10@italic{n} gifts to every @italic{n}th house.
Math jocks will notice that the elf behavior roughly describes a @link["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve_of_Eratosthenes"]{Sieve of Eratosthenes}. Each house is visited by elf @italic{n} only if @italic{n} is a divisor of the house number. (Houses that are primes are therefore only visited by the first elf.) Might there be a Racket function that finds the divisors of a number? Why, yes it's called @racket[divisors]. We can use it to find the numbers of the elves that visit a house, and loop through house numbers till we reach the target. (The 10-gift multiplier is arbitrary.)
@chunk[<day20-setup>
(require racket rackunit (only-in math divisors))
(provide (all-defined-out))
]
@chunk[<day20-q1>
(define (q1 input-str)
(define target-gifts (read (open-input-string input-str)))
(define gifts-per-elf 10)
(for/first ([house-number (in-naturals)]
#:when (let* ([elves (divisors house-number)]
[elf-gifts
(apply + (map (curry * gifts-per-elf) elves))])
(>= elf-gifts target-gifts)))
house-number))]
@section{What's the first house that gets the target number of presents, if each elf delivers 11 gifts to 50 houses?}
Going with the math-jock vibe, what this condition means is that the highest-numbered house the @italic{n}th elf will visit is 50@italic{n}. So the answer for this question is like the first, but we'll @racket[filter] the list of elves using this condition.
@chunk[<day20-q2>
(define (q2 input-str)
(define target-gifts (read (open-input-string input-str)))
(define gifts-per-elf 11)
(for/first ([house-number (in-naturals)]
#:when (let* ([elves (divisors house-number)]
[elves (filter
(λ(e) (<= house-number (* 50 e))) elves)]
[elf-gifts
(apply + (map (curry * gifts-per-elf) elves))])
(>= elf-gifts target-gifts)))
house-number))
]
@section{Testing Day 18}
@chunk[<day20-test>
(module+ test
(define input-str (file->string "day20-input.txt"))
(check-equal? (q1 input-str) 831600)
(check-equal? (q2 input-str) 884520))]