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Advent_of_code/src/2020/P5.py
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# --- Day 5: Binary Boarding ---
# You board your plane only to discover a new problem: you dropped your
# boarding pass! You aren't sure which seat is yours, and all of the flight
# attendants are busy with the flood of people that suddenly made it through
# passport control.
# You write a quick program to use your phone's camera to scan all of the
# nearby boarding passes (your puzzle input); perhaps you can find your seat
# through process of elimination.
# Instead of zones or groups, this airline uses binary space partitioning to
# seat people. A seat might be specified like FBFBBFFRLR, where F means
# "front", B means "back", L means "left", and R means "right".
# The first 7 characters will either be F or B; these specify exactly one of
# the 128 rows on the plane (numbered 0 through 127). Each letter tells you
# which half of a region the given seat is in. Start with the whole list of
# rows; the first letter indicates whether the seat is in the front (0 through
# 63) or the back (64 through 127). The next letter indicates which half of
# that region the seat is in, and so on until you're left with exactly one row.
# For example, consider just the first seven characters of FBFBBFFRLR:
# Start by considering the whole range, rows 0 through 127.
# F means to take the lower half, keeping rows 0 through 63.
# B means to take the upper half, keeping rows 32 through 63.
# F means to take the lower half, keeping rows 32 through 47.
# B means to take the upper half, keeping rows 40 through 47.
# B keeps rows 44 through 47.
# F keeps rows 44 through 45.
# The final F keeps the lower of the two, row 44.
# The last three characters will be either L or R; these specify exactly one of
# the 8 columns of seats on the plane (numbered 0 through 7). The same process
# as above proceeds again, this time with only three steps. L means to keep the
# lower half, while R means to keep the upper half.
# For example, consider just the last 3 characters of FBFBBFFRLR:
# Start by considering the whole range, columns 0 through 7.
# R means to take the upper half, keeping columns 4 through 7.
# L means to take the lower half, keeping columns 4 through 5.
# The final R keeps the upper of the two, column 5.
# So, decoding FBFBBFFRLR reveals that it is the seat at row 44, column 5.
# Every seat also has a unique seat ID: multiply the row by 8, then add the
# column. In this example, the seat has ID 44 * 8 + 5 = 357.
# Here are some other boarding passes:
# BFFFBBFRRR: row 70, column 7, seat ID 567.
# FFFBBBFRRR: row 14, column 7, seat ID 119.
# BBFFBBFRLL: row 102, column 4, seat ID 820.
# As a sanity check, look through your list of boarding passes. What is the
# highest seat ID on a boarding pass?
with open("files/P5.txt", "r") as f:
boarding_passes = [code for code in f.read().strip().split("\n")]
def binary_search(
arr: str, upper_limit: int, var_lower: str, var_upper: str
) -> int:
range_l = 0
range_h = upper_limit
range_m = 0
for char in arr:
range_m = (range_h + range_l) // 2
if char == var_lower:
range_h = range_m
elif char == var_upper:
range_l = range_m + 1
return int(range_l)
def part_1() -> None:
seat_ID: int = 0
for code in boarding_passes:
row, col = code[:7], code[-3:]
_row = binary_search(row, 127, "F", "B")
_col = binary_search(col, 7, "L", "R")
_seat_ID: int = _row * 8 + _col
seat_ID = max(seat_ID, _seat_ID)
print(f"The highest seat ID on a boarding pass is {seat_ID}")
# --- Part Two ---
# Ding! The "fasten seat belt" signs have turned on. Time to find your seat.
# It's a completely full flight, so your seat should be the only missing
# boarding pass in your list. However, there's a catch: some of the seats at
# the very front and back of the plane don't exist on this aircraft, so they'll
# be missing from your list as well.
# Your seat wasn't at the very front or back, though; the seats with IDs +1 and
# -1 from yours will be in your list.
# What is the ID of your seat?
def part_2() -> None:
seat_IDs: list[int] = []
missing_seats: list[int] = []
for code in boarding_passes:
row, col = code[:7], code[-3:]
_row = binary_search(row, 127, "F", "B")
_col = binary_search(col, 7, "L", "R")
_seat_ID: int = _row * 8 + _col
seat_IDs.append(_seat_ID)
for ID in range(len(boarding_passes)):
if ID in seat_IDs:
pass
else:
missing_seats.append(ID)
print(f"The ID of my seat is {missing_seats[-1]}")
if __name__ == "__main__":
part_1()
part_2()