My Solutions for Advent of Code challenges

¹ "Execution time" code included in all Python files taken from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1557571/how-do-i-get-time-of-a-python-programs-execution

² This solution takes 20-25 secs to load on my machine, actual time may vary.

³ Linchpin for Day 8, part II [ list(zip(*lists)) ] taken from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2407398/how-to-merge-lists-into-a-list-of-tuples

¹ "Execution time" code included in all Python files taken from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1557571/how-do-i-get-time-of-a-python-programs-execution

² The Part II solution reuses the function from Part I.

¹ "Execution time" code included in all Python files taken from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1557571/how-do-i-get-time-of-a-python-programs-execution

² In order to prevent duplication and doing math on same pair of numbers, use the index of the first number in the equation (outer loop).

³ Rather than track the occurrences of each string, use the count itself to increment a counter then compare with length of the list. If values are equal, then no strings are repeated. Lists of different lengths are supported.

⁴ The Part II solution reuses the function from Part I.

¹ "Execution time" code included in all Python files taken from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1557571/how-do-i-get-time-of-a-python-programs-execution