Day 7: Bridge Repair
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Didn’t try to make it clever at all, so it’s fairly slow (minutes, not seconds). Maybe rewriting
foldl_ops
in terms of destructive array update would improve matters, but the biggest problem is that I don’t skip unnecessary calculations (because we’ve already found a match or already reached too big a number). This is concise and follows clearly from the definitions, however.