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Day 5: If You Give a Seed a Fertilizer


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[–] Gobbel2000@feddit.de 0 points 11 months ago

Indeed, my solution fails on this input (returns 10, which is the location to seed 0), but it can be easily solved by also adding the ends of each range as well.

Maybe the input was quite forgiving. Thinking about it more, reversing the mapping can get quite involved, because it is neither surjective nor injective, so the inverse can actually have any number of results.

In your example there is no input that maps to 0, but there are two inputs that map to 11 (1 and 11). If the seed-to-soil map also included 10 20 2, 21 would also map to 11.