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Oh, hello! Funny seeing you here.
I appreciate your enthusiasm, but you aren't going to find much down here.
There certainly aren't clues to any of the puzzles. You do risk spoiling a few
surprises for yourself, though. Best to play the normal way and discover
everything as it was intended, I think. The best surprises don't even appear
in the source until you unlock them for real.
Please be careful with automated requests; I'm not Google, and I can only take
so much traffic. Please be considerate so that everyone gets to play.
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Perl code. Other than a few integrations (auth, analytics, ads, social media),
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all of the puzzles.
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each, but the harder ones took 2-3 hours, some even longer than that. A lot of
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<article class="day-desc"><h2>--- Day 19: Medicine for Rudolph ---</h2><p>Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is sick! His nose isn't shining very brightly, and he needs medicine.</p>
<p>Red-Nosed Reindeer biology isn't similar to regular reindeer biology; Rudolph is going to need custom-made medicine. Unfortunately, Red-Nosed Reindeer chemistry isn't similar to regular reindeer chemistry, either.</p>
<p>The North Pole is equipped with a Red-Nosed Reindeer nuclear fusion/fission plant, capable of constructing any Red-Nosed Reindeer molecule you need. It works by starting with some input molecule and then doing a series of <em>replacements</em>, one per step, until it has the right molecule.</p>
<p>However, the machine has to be calibrated before it can be used. Calibration involves determining the number of molecules that can be generated in one step from a given starting point.</p>
<p>For example, imagine a simpler machine that supports only the following replacements:</p>
<pre><code>H => HO
H => OH
O => HH
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<p>Given the replacements above and starting with <code>HOH</code>, the following molecules could be generated:</p>
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<li><code>HOOH</code> (via <code>H => HO</code> on the first <code>H</code>).</li>
<li><code>HOHO</code> (via <code>H => HO</code> on the second <code>H</code>).</li>
<li><code>OHOH</code> (via <code>H => OH</code> on the first <code>H</code>).</li>
<li><code>HOOH</code> (via <code>H => OH</code> on the second <code>H</code>).</li>
<li><code>HHHH</code> (via <code>O => HH</code>).</li>
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<p>So, in the example above, there are <code>4</code> <em>distinct</em> molecules (not five, because <code>HOOH</code> appears twice) after one replacement from <code>HOH</code>. Santa's favorite molecule, <code>HOHOHO</code>, can become <code>7</code> <em>distinct</em> molecules (over nine replacements: six from <code>H</code>, and three from <code>O</code>).</p>
<p>The machine replaces without regard for the surrounding characters. For example, given the string <code>H2O</code>, the transition <code>H => OO</code> would result in <code>OO2O</code>.</p>
<p>Your puzzle input describes all of the possible replacements and, at the bottom, the medicine molecule for which you need to calibrate the machine. <em>How many distinct molecules can be created</em> after all the different ways you can do one replacement on the medicine molecule?</p>
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