package main import ( "os" "fmt" "strconv" "strings" ) // general util func check(e error) { if e != nil { panic(e) } } func apply_rules(arr []int) []int { for i, e := range arr { switch { // rule 1 case e == 0: arr[i] = 1 // mark for rule 2 case len(strconv.Itoa(e)) % 2 == 0: arr[i] = -e // rule 3 default: arr[i] = e * 2024 } } // rule 2 arr_cp := make([]int, len(arr)) copy(arr_cp, arr) arr = arr[:0] for _, e := range arr_cp { if e > 0 { arr = append(arr, e) } else { e_str := strconv.Itoa(-e) num1, err := strconv.Atoi(e_str[:len(e_str) / 2]) check(err) num2, err := strconv.Atoi(e_str[len(e_str) / 2:]) check(err) arr = append(arr, num1) arr = append(arr, num2) } } return arr } // main loop func main() { // read in file dat, err := os.ReadFile("data.txt") check(err) dat_str := strings.TrimSpace(string(dat)) line_arr := strings.Split(dat_str, " ") // convert to list of numbers numbers := make([]int, 0, len(line_arr)) for _, e := range line_arr { num, err := strconv.Atoi(e) check(err) numbers = append(numbers, num) } for range 25 { numbers = apply_rules(numbers) } fmt.Println(len(numbers)) }