Day 1: Secret Entrance
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FAQ
- What is this?: Here is a post with a large amount of details: https://programming.dev/post/6637268
- Where do I participate?: https://adventofcode.com/
- Is there a leaderboard for the community?: We have a programming.dev leaderboard with the info on how to join in this post: https://programming.dev/post/6631465
The thing I couldn’t comprehend was where 1000000000050 had come from.
ah that’s just because i needed rounding towards infinity and not towards zero. In other words i wanted -10/100 to be -1 and not zero. But i couldn’t figure it out on the spot, so i just made it never negative :)