Advent of code - Day 9

Are you participating in the Advent of code this year?

If you don't know what the advent of code is, it's a website where you'll find a daily challenge (every day it gets harder). It's a really fun event, you should participate!

I try to solve the exercises using either JavaScript or TypeScript and will share my solutions daily (with one day delay so no one can cheat!). I only share the solution for the second part.

Day 9 felt surprisingly not as scary as day 8. Maybe I'm just getting better?
Here is my solution for day #9:

function resolve(code, offset) {
  for (let i = offset; i < code.length; i++) {
    const currentNumber = code[i];
    const possibleNumbers = code.slice(i - offset, i);
    const ok = possibleNumbers.some((firstNumber) =>
      possibleNumbers.some(
        (secondNumber) =>
          firstNumber + secondNumber === currentNumber &&
          firstNumber !== secondNumber
      )
    );
    if (!ok) return currentNumber;
  }
}

function findMinMax(code, offset) {
  const invalidNumber = resolve(code, offset);
  for (let i = 0; i < code.length; i++) {
    let total = 0;
    for (let j = i; j < code.length; j++) {
      // Since the input is sorted, we just need to traverse
      // and make the sum until we find one that matches
      total += code[j];
      if (total < invalidNumber) continue;
      if (total > invalidNumber) break;
      const range = code.slice(i, j + 1);
      return Math.min(...range) + Math.max(...range);
    }
  }
}

findMinMax(input)

Feel free to share your solution in the comments!

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Comments

[Kingsley Ijomah]

Thanks! I will check this out! love a good challenge :)