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# --- Day 1: Sonar Sweep ---
# You're minding your own business on a ship at sea when the overboard alarm
# goes off! You rush to see if you can help. Apparently, one of the Elves
# tripped and accidentally sent the sleigh keys flying into the ocean!
# Before you know it, you're inside a submarine the Elves keep ready for
# situations like this. It's covered in Christmas lights (because of course it
# is), and it even has an experimental antenna that should be able to track the
# keys if you can boost its signal strength high enough; there's a little meter
# that indicates the antenna's signal strength by displaying 0-50 stars.
# Your instincts tell you that in order to save Christmas, you'll need to get
# all fifty stars by December 25th.
# Collect stars by solving puzzles. Two puzzles will be made available on each
# day in the Advent calendar; the second puzzle is unlocked when you complete
# the first. Each puzzle grants one star. Good luck!
# As the submarine drops below the surface of the ocean, it automatically
# performs a sonar sweep of the nearby sea floor. On a small screen, the sonar
# sweep report (your puzzle input) appears: each line is a measurement of the
# sea floor depth as the sweep looks further and further away from the
# submarine.
# For example, suppose you had the following report:
# 199
# 200
# 208
# 210
# 200
# 207
# 240
# 269
# 260
# 263
# This report indicates that, scanning outward from the submarine, the sonar
# sweep found depths of 199, 200, 208, 210, and so on.
# The first order of business is to figure out how quickly the depth increases,
# just so you know what you're dealing with - you never know if the keys will
# get carried into deeper water by an ocean current or a fish or something.
# To do this, count the number of times a depth measurement increases from the
# previous measurement. (There is no measurement before the first measurement.)
# In the example above, the changes are as follows:
# 199 (N/A - no previous measurement)
# 200 (increased)
# 208 (increased)
# 210 (increased)
# 200 (decreased)
# 207 (increased)
# 240 (increased)
# 269 (increased)
# 260 (decreased)
# 263 (increased)
# In this example, there are 7 measurements that are larger than the previous
# measurement.
# How many measurements are larger than the previous measurement?
with open("files/P1.txt", "r") as f:
report = [int(number) for number in f.read().strip().split()]
def part_1(lst: list[int]) -> int:
increments = sum(
1 for idx, val in enumerate(lst) if idx > 0 and lst[idx] > lst[idx - 1]
)
return increments
# --- Part Two ---
# Considering every single measurement isn't as useful as you expected: there's
# just too much noise in the data.
# Instead, consider sums of a three-measurement sliding window. Again
# considering the above example:
# 199 A
# 200 A B
# 208 A B C
# 210 B C D
# 200 E C D
# 207 E F D
# 240 E F G
# 269 F G H
# 260 G H
# 263 H
# Start by comparing the first and second three-measurement windows. The
# measurements in the first window are marked A (199, 200, 208); their sum is
# 199 + 200 + 208 = 607. The second window is marked B (200, 208, 210); its sum
# is 618. The sum of measurements in the second window is larger than the sum
# of the first, so this first comparison increased.
# Your goal now is to count the number of times the sum of measurements in this
# sliding window increases from the previous sum. So, compare A with B, then
# compare B with C, then C with D, and so on. Stop when there aren't enough
# measurements left to create a new three-measurement sum.
# In the above example, the sum of each three-measurement window is as follows:
# A: 607 (N/A - no previous sum)
# B: 618 (increased)
# C: 618 (no change)
# D: 617 (decreased)
# E: 647 (increased)
# F: 716 (increased)
# G: 769 (increased)
# H: 792 (increased)
# In this example, there are 5 sums that are larger than the previous sum.
# Consider sums of a three-measurement sliding window. How many sums are larger
# than the previous sum?
def part_2(lst: list[int]) -> int:
increments = sum(
1
for idx, val in enumerate(lst)
if sum(lst[idx + 1 : idx + 4]) > sum(lst[idx : idx + 3])
)
return increments
if __name__ == "__main__":
print(part_1(report))
print(part_2(report))