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Part 1 took a decent while, partly life getting in the way, partly as I was struggling with some Rust things like floats not being sortable without mucking around, plus some weird bugs trying to get
collectto do everything that I eventually just rewrote to avoid.I found the noisy_float crate which let me wrap f64 as a "real" r64 which meant no NaN which meant Ord which meant
sort_by_cached_key()and the rest worked.I'd planned how to partition the closest neighbour search, but the whole thing runs in 24ms so I didn't bother.
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