17-2

Squashed commit of the following:
commit 20335dc
Author: Lachlan Meyer <lachlanmeyer@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Dec 18 14:38:32 2024 +1100

    17-2

commit c335e1c
Author: Lachlan Meyer <lachlanmeyer@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Dec 18 00:59:54 2024 +1100

    This thing is too friggin slow

commit 4b1b30c
Author: Lachlan Meyer <lachlanmeyer@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Dec 18 00:50:24 2024 +1100

    12-1

2024/17/17-1.py

@@ -1,10 +1,8 @@
-
 registers = {}
 operands = []
 
-outs = []
-
 pointer = 0
+outs = []
 
 def getComboOperandValue(operand):
     match operand:
@@ -16,7 +14,6 @@ def getComboOperandValue(operand):
             # 7 is 'reserved'
             raise Exception('bruh')
 
-
 def runOperand(opcode, operand = None):
     global pointer
     pointer += 2

2024/17/17-2.py

@@ -0,0 +1,100 @@
+originalRegisters = {}
+registers = {}
+operands = []
+
+pointer = 0
+outs = []
+
+def getComboOperandValue(operand):
+    match operand:
+        case 0 | 1 | 2 | 3:
+            return operand
+        case 4 | 5 | 6:
+            return registers[chr(operand + 61)] # 65 is 'A' in ASCII
+        case _:
+            # 7 is 'reserved'
+            raise Exception('bruh')
+
+def runOperand(opcode, operand = None):
+    global pointer
+    pointer += 2
+
+    match opcode:
+        case 0:
+            #adv
+            registers['A'] = int(registers['A']/(2**getComboOperandValue(operand)))
+        case 1:
+            #bxl
+            registers['B'] = registers['B'] ^ operand
+        case 2:
+            #bst
+            registers['B'] = getComboOperandValue(operand) % 8
+        case 3:
+            #jnz
+            if registers['A'] == 0:
+                return
+            pointer = operand
+        case 4:
+            #bxc
+            registers['B'] = registers['B'] ^ registers['C']
+        case 5:
+            #out
+            outs.append(getComboOperandValue(operand) % 8)
+        case 6:
+            #bdv
+            registers['B'] = int(registers['A']/(2**getComboOperandValue(operand)))
+        case 7:
+            #cdv
+            registers['C'] = int(registers['A']/(2**getComboOperandValue(operand)))
+
+with open('2024/17/input.txt') as f: 
+    for i, line in enumerate(f):
+        line = line.strip()
+
+        if i == 3:
+            continue
+
+        split = line.split(': ')
+        if i == 4:
+            operands = [int(x) for x in split[1].split(',')]
+            break
+
+        registers[split[0][-1]] = int(split[1])
+
+print(registers)
+print(operands)
+
+originalRegisters = registers.copy()
+
+def isSubarrayAtEnd(arr, sub):
+    # Check if the subarray is identical to the end of the array
+    return arr[-len(sub):] == sub
+
+patternMatches = [0]
+numberFound = False
+
+while not numberFound:
+    currentMatch = patternMatches[0]
+    valueBin = format(currentMatch, 'o')
+    for i in range(8):
+        testValue = int(str(valueBin) + str(i), 8)
+
+        registers['A'] = testValue
+        while pointer < len(operands):
+            runOperand(operands[pointer], operands[pointer+1])
+
+        if isSubarrayAtEnd(operands, outs):
+            patternMatches.append(testValue)
+            print(f'{testValue}: {valueBin} {outs}')
+
+        if outs == operands:
+            print(f'Your lucky number is: {testValue}')
+            print(','.join(str(out) for out in outs))
+            numberFound = True
+            break
+
+        registers = originalRegisters.copy()
+        outs = []
+        pointer = 0
+        testValue += 1
+    del patternMatches[0]

2024/17/notes.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+note about notes: I do be rambling
+
+notice that sets ending in 0 seem to output in a pattern
+4: [0]                      100
+
+32: [4, 0]                  100000
+33: [4, 0]
+34: [2, 0]
+35: [7, 0]
+36: [1, 0]
+37: [3, 0]
+38: [2, 0]
+39: [3, 0]                  100111
+
+256: [4, 4, 0]              100000000
+257: [4, 4, 0]
+258: [6, 4, 0]
+259: [7, 4, 0]
+... continues like this
+315: [1, 3, 0]
+316: [1, 3, 0]
+317: [2, 3, 0]
+318: [0, 3, 0]
+319: [7, 3, 0]              100111111
+
+Theory: seems to output 0 as the last number when starting with binary 100
+
+2048 has 0 at end!
+Likely not a coincidence
+Note: last value in my input is 0, so will not work for opcodes with any other number at the end
+
+Still takes too long, what about base 8?
+
+4:      4
+32:     40
+39:     47
+256:    400
+319:    477
+2048:   4000
+16384:  40000
+
+New theory: go from 4(0+) to 4(7+)
+
+Still chugging.
+At 536870912, no luck yet. After 40 minutes we're still stuck here.
+
+Nearly an hour and we hit 4294967296
+Stuck here for hours now. This isn't going to work.
+
+
+Investigating the sample set
+117440 = 0o345300 or 0x1CAC0
+Didn't start with a 4, is this logic flawed?
+It's possible all the outputs that have 0 as the last instead start with 3 for this sequence of steps.
+But why?
+
+Ideas:
+It's possible that the XORs from part 1 are relevant here.
+Maybe there's some bit crunching that lets us skip some more numbers.
+
+==========
+
+New idea: what if we focus on patterns that match the output at the end?
+
+{'A': 46323429, 'B': 0, 'C': 0}
+[2, 4, 1, 1, 7, 5, 1, 5, 4, 3, 0, 3, 5, 5, 3, 0]
+4: 4 [0]
+37: 45 [3, 0]
+39: 47 [3, 0]
+299: 453 [5, 3, 0]
+2394: 4532 [5, 5, 3, 0]
+19155: 45323 [3, 5, 5, 3, 0]
+153240: 453230 [0, 3, 5, 5, 3, 0]
+153245: 453235 [0, 3, 5, 5, 3, 0]
+1225926: 4532306 [3, 0, 3, 5, 5, 3, 0]
+1225962: 4532352 [3, 0, 3, 5, 5, 3, 0]
+1225966: 4532356 [3, 0, 3, 5, 5, 3, 0]
+
+for each value that matches, the next pattern has the same octal + another digit 0-7
+
+If this is the case, we'll have at most 8^n new calculations to run - still much better than every value that started with 0o4

2024/17/testinput2.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+Register A: 2024
+Register B: 0
+Register C: 0
+
+Program: 0,3,5,4,3,0

2024/17/testinput3.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+Register A: 117440
+Register B: 0
+Register C: 0
+
+Program: 0,3,5,4,3,0