--- Day 17: Trick Shot ---

or..

Hold my coffee...

Part 1

Python

After yesterday's reading mishap, I knew it was worth it to have coffee before reading the problem. I felt like I grasped it, and eventually came up with some logical constraints for the initial velocity. I feel like this was a straight forward solution that just took me a bit to wrap my mind around.

Go

Still catching up

Part 2

Python

I thought I had read the problem, but alas, I apparently misread one part:

For the probe to successfully make it into the trench, the probe must be on some trajectory that causes it to be within a target area after any step.

There was a part immediately before this that specified that the x move happened before the y, so I had figured this meant that mid-step traversing the goal would count. It very much did not. After sorting that out, I had a trivial off by one error caused by my x range not including the max value which took me a few seconds to sort out then 3 seconds of execution time and we had a bingo.

Go

We'll see.

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