with open(r'day8/input.txt', 'r') as input: lines = list(map(lambda x: list(map(lambda y: int(y),x.split(','))),input.read().split('\n')[:-1])) def dist(a,b): return (a[0]-b[0])**2 + (a[1]-b[1])**2 + (a[2]-b[2])**2 def find_best(i): best_distances[i] = [10**15,-1] for j,node2 in enumerate(lines): if idx_circuit[j] == idx_circuit[i]: continue distance = dist(lines[i],node2) best_distances[i] = min([distance,j], best_distances[i],key=lambda x : x[0]) best_distances = [] idx_circuit = list(range(len(lines))) for i in range(len(lines)): best_distances.append(0) find_best(i) pairs_left = 1000 while pairs_left > 0: min_idx = best_distances.index(min(best_distances, key = lambda x:x[0])) if (old_idx := idx_circuit[min_idx]) == (new_idx := idx_circuit[best_distances[min_idx][1]]): find_best(min_idx) continue for i in range(len(lines)): if idx_circuit[i] == old_idx: idx_circuit[i] = new_idx for i in range(len(lines)): if idx_circuit[i] == new_idx: find_best(i) pairs_left -= 1 counts = [] for circuit in set(idx_circuit): count = len(list(filter(lambda x: idx_circuit[x] == circuit,idx_circuit))) counts.append(count) counts.sort(reverse=True) print(counts) print("score:",counts[0]*counts[1]*counts[2])