Day 13: Point of Incidence
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// i is like // # # # # # // 1 2 3 4 def smudgesAround(i: Int, s: List[List[Char]]): Long = val toEdge = math.min(i, s.size - i) (0 until toEdge).map(e => s(i - e - 1).lazyZip(s(i + e)).count(_ != _)).sum def symmetries(g: List[List[Char]], smudges: Int) = val rows = (1 until g.size).filter(smudgesAround(_, g) == smudges) val g2 = g.transpose val cols = (1 until g2.size).filter(smudgesAround(_, g2) == smudges) 100*rows.sum + cols.sum def task1(a: List[String]): Long = a.chunk(_ == "").map(g => symmetries(g.map(_.toList), 0)).sum def task2(a: List[String]): Long = a.chunk(_ == "").map(g => symmetries(g.map(_.toList), 1)).sumWouldn’t this code fail in a case like this? Because you count different lines, not different characters in the lines, right? Or am I missing something? Thanks (Let’s ignore column symmetry for the sake of example).
## .. .. ..(I think you will get answer 100, but the answer is 300)
But for sure after seeing this I have to learn Scala.
On your example, my code produces 301, which matches your 300 ignoring column symmetry (and 0 for task2, as there is no way to smudge a single cell to create symmetry).
Let me explain the code real quick: What
smudgesArounddoes is compute the number of tiles you would need to change to create a symmetry around indexi. First,toEdgeis the number of tiles to the nearest edge, everything after that will be reflected outside the grid and won’t matter. Then, for each actually relevant distance, we compare the rows/columns this distance fromi. By zipping them, we create an Iterator that first yields the pair of first entries, then the pair of second entries, and so on. On each pair we apply a comparison, to count the number of entries which did not match. This is the number of smudges we need to fix to get these rows/columns to match. Summing over all relevant pairs of rows/columns, we get the total number of smudges to makeia mirror line. In symmetries, we just check eachi, for task1 we want a mirror line without smudges and for task2 we want a mirror line for exactly oneYou can also make this quite a bit shorter, if you want to sacrifice some more readability:
def compute(a: List[String], sm: Int) = a.chunk(_ == "").map(_.map(_.toList)).map(g => Seq(g, g.transpose).map(s => (1 until s.size).filter(i => (0 until math.min(i, s.size - i)).map(e => s(i - e - 1).zip(s(i + e)).count(_ != _)).sum == sm).sum).zip(Seq(100, 1)).map(_ * _).sum).sum def task1(a: List[String]): Long = compute(a, 0) def task2(a: List[String]): Long = compute(a, 1)Oh, I see, I for some reason switched zip operation with “create pair/tuple” operation in my head. Thanks for clarification.