adventOfCode/challenges/2024/07-bridgeRepair/README.md

Day 7: Bridge Repair

Part 1 is:

• greater than 450054910499

Before optimisation (pregenerating then testing operator combiantions using itertools.product("*+|", length=n)), runtime looks something like this:

Part 1: min 0.2671 seconds, max 0.2818 seconds, avg 0.2755
Part 2: min 23.2387 seconds, max 24.8753 seconds, avg 23.8805

It also appeared that using string concatenation as opposed to pure mathematical functions for the concatenation operator was marginally faster in Python.