# --- Day 8: Memory Maneuver --- # The sleigh is much easier to pull than you'd expect for something its weight. # Unfortunately, neither you nor the Elves know which way the North Pole is # from here. # You check your wrist device for anything that might help. It seems to have # some kind of navigation system! Activating the navigation system produces # more bad news: "Failed to start navigation system. Could not read software # license file." # The navigation system's license file consists of a list of numbers (your # puzzle input). The numbers define a data structure which, when processed, # produces some kind of tree that can be used to calculate the license number. # The tree is made up of nodes; a single, outermost node forms the tree's root, # and it contains all other nodes in the tree (or contains nodes that contain # nodes, and so on). # Specifically, a node consists of: # A header, which is always exactly two numbers: # The quantity of child nodes. # The quantity of metadata entries. # Zero or more child nodes (as specified in the header). # One or more metadata entries (as specified in the header). # Each child node is itself a node that has its own header, child nodes, and # metadata. For example: # 2 3 0 3 10 11 12 1 1 0 1 99 2 1 1 2 # A---------------------------------- # B----------- C----------- # D----- # In this example, each node of the tree is also marked with an underline # starting with a letter for easier identification. In it, there are four # nodes: # A, which has 2 child nodes (B, C) and 3 metadata entries (1, 1, 2). # B, which has 0 child nodes and 3 metadata entries (10, 11, 12). # C, which has 1 child node (D) and 1 metadata entry (2). # D, which has 0 child nodes and 1 metadata entry (99). # The first check done on the license file is to simply add up all of the # metadata entries. In this example, that sum is 1+1+2+10+11+12+2+99=138. # What is the sum of all metadata entries? from copy import copy from typing import List with open("files/P8.txt") as f: tree = [int(num) for num in f.read().strip().split()] def sum_metadata(lst: List[int]) -> int: childs = lst.pop(0) metadata = lst.pop(0) ans = sum(sum_metadata(lst) for _ in range(childs)) + sum( lst.pop(0) for _ in range(metadata) ) return ans def part_1() -> None: tree_p1 = copy(tree) print(f"The sum of all metadata entries is {sum_metadata(tree_p1)}") # --- Part Two --- # The second check is slightly more complicated: you need to find the value of # the root node (A in the example above). # The value of a node depends on whether it has child nodes. # If a node has no child nodes, its value is the sum of its metadata entries. # So, the value of node B is 10+11+12=33, and the value of node D is 99. # However, if a node does have child nodes, the metadata entries become indexes # which refer to those child nodes. A metadata entry of 1 refers to the first # child node, 2 to the second, 3 to the third, and so on. The value of this # node is the sum of the values of the child nodes referenced by the metadata # entries. If a referenced child node does not exist, that reference is # skipped. A child node can be referenced multiple time and counts each time it # is referenced. A metadata entry of 0 does not refer to any child node. # For example, again using the above nodes: # Node C has one metadata entry, 2. Because node C has only one child node, # 2 references a child node which does not exist, and so the value of node C is # 0. # Node A has three metadata entries: 1, 1, and 2. The 1 references node A's # first child node, B, and the 2 references node A's second child node, C. # Because node B has a value of 33 and node C has a value of 0, the value of # node A is 33+33+0=66. # So, in this example, the value of the root node is 66. # What is the value of the root node? def find_root_value(lst: List[int]) -> int: childs = lst.pop(0) metadata = lst.pop(0) values = [find_root_value(lst) for _ in range(childs)] metadatas = [lst.pop(0) for _ in range(metadata)] if childs == 0: return sum(metadatas) return sum( values[child - 1] for child in metadatas if child - 1 in range(childs) ) def part_2() -> None: tree_p2 = copy(tree) print(f"The value of the root node is {find_root_value(tree_p2)}") if __name__ == "__main__": part_1() part_2()