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Advent of Code - Day 13

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sasajuric

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Advent of Code - Day 13

Note: This topic is to talk about Day 13 of the Advent of Code.

For general discussion about the Advent of Code 2018 and links to topics of the other days, see this topic.

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bjorng

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Erlang Core Team

My solution to Day 13. I struggled with collision detection for a long time. Here is the cleaned up version of my code.

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sasajuric

sasajuric

Author of Elixir In Action

I found today’s task somewhat tedious. I lost some time because I didn’t cover the case where the cars crash in the middle of the tick, so I got wrong results. Anyway, my solution is here.

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JEG2

JEG2

Author of Designing Elixir Systems with OTP

My solution to Day 13:

You can watch me create it in this video (for the next 14 days):

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