Day 6, part 2
Day 6 challenge of the mighty Advent of Code 2024
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Introduction
Once again, let me welcome you to the next Advent of Code puzzle. This is a part 2 of day 6 and this article is a continuation of the Day 6, part 1, so please read it first before you start this one. This part of the challenge is available only when you successfully finished the part 1. The second part of the challenge is described under section here.
What is the new problem
Well, it came out that the input data is not listing couple of separate races, but this is just one race (one time and one distance), but the numbers just have some spaces in-between. So lets look at the test data:
With what we know now, these numbers supposed to be read as and . Looking at the website for the solutions to this example we can see that the range starts from until and the final count of all solutions is .
Lets commit all the changes.