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Again part 2 took me way longer than I would've liked and also than feels appropriate for the simplicity of the solution I finally came up with.
Turned out quite fast, thanks to the ranges.
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That is nice and simple, power of python I guess. How quick was the pt2 solve? I could imagine that being pathalogically slow with the wrong ordering of inputs?
Eg: (99,100),(0,1),..., (95,96), (96,97), (97,98), (98,99)
I haven't timed it, but easily below a second.
Could that be optimised? Most certainly.
Due to the ranges being in a set, rather than a list, the input order doesn't matter anyway. And the set really does a lot of heavy lifting for making the code so concise. You'll need a bunch of boilerplate for list maintenance, especially if you continuously keep it sorted.
The set also removed 8 duplicates I had in the input.