{ Solutions to the Advent Of Code. Copyright (C) 2023 Stefan Müller This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see . } unit UNeverTellMeTheOdds; {$mode ObjFPC}{$H+} interface uses Classes, SysUtils, Generics.Collections, Math, USolver; type { THailstone } THailstone = record X, Y, Z: Int64; VX, VY, VZ: Integer; end; THailstones = specialize TList; { TNeverTellMeTheOdds } TNeverTellMeTheOdds = class(TSolver) private FMin, FMax: Int64; FHailStones: THailstones; function AreIntersecting(constref AHailstone1, AHailstone2: THailstone): Boolean; public constructor Create(const AMin: Int64 = 200000000000000; const AMax: Int64 = 400000000000000); destructor Destroy; override; procedure ProcessDataLine(const ALine: string); override; procedure Finish; override; function GetDataFileName: string; override; function GetPuzzleName: string; override; end; implementation { TNeverTellMeTheOdds } function TNeverTellMeTheOdds.AreIntersecting(constref AHailstone1, AHailstone2: THailstone): Boolean; var m1, m2, x, y: Double; begin Result := False; m1 := AHailstone1.VY / AHailstone1.VX; m2 := AHailstone2.VY / AHailstone2.VX; if m1 <> m2 then begin x := (AHailstone2.Y - m2 * AHailstone2.X - AHailstone1.Y + m1 * AHailstone1.X) / (m1 - m2); if (FMin <= x) and (x <= FMax) and (x * Sign(AHailstone1.VX) >= AHailstone1.X * Sign(AHailstone1.VX)) and (x * Sign(AHailstone2.VX) >= AHailstone2.X * Sign(AHailstone2.VX)) then begin y := m1 * (x - AHailstone1.X) + AHailstone1.Y; if (FMin <= y) and (y <= FMax) then Result := True end; end; end; constructor TNeverTellMeTheOdds.Create(const AMin: Int64; const AMax: Int64); begin FMin := AMin; FMax := AMax; FHailStones := THailstones.Create; end; destructor TNeverTellMeTheOdds.Destroy; begin FHailStones.Free; inherited Destroy; end; procedure TNeverTellMeTheOdds.ProcessDataLine(const ALine: string); var split: TStringArray; hailstone: THailstone; begin split := ALine.Split([',', '@']); hailstone.X := StrToInt64(Trim(split[0])); hailstone.Y := StrToInt64(Trim(split[1])); hailstone.Z := StrToInt64(Trim(split[2])); hailstone.VX := StrToInt(Trim(split[3])); hailstone.VY := StrToInt(Trim(split[4])); hailstone.VZ := StrToInt(Trim(split[5])); FHailStones.Add(hailstone); end; procedure TNeverTellMeTheOdds.Finish; var i, j: Integer; begin for i := 0 to FHailStones.Count - 2 do for j := i + 1 to FHailStones.Count - 1 do if AreIntersecting(FHailStones[i], FHailStones[j]) then Inc(FPart1); end; function TNeverTellMeTheOdds.GetDataFileName: string; begin Result := 'never_tell_me_the_odds.txt'; end; function TNeverTellMeTheOdds.GetPuzzleName: string; begin Result := 'Day 24: Never Tell Me The Odds'; end; end.