From f33d510a4dda510fa93137a8897230ebf539f435 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nat Lasseter <Nat Lasseter nathan@bytemark.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2017 10:53:41 +0000
Subject: Day 06

---
 day06/part1 | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 47 insertions(+)
 create mode 100755 day06/part1

(limited to 'day06/part1')

diff --git a/day06/part1 b/day06/part1
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..e615e84
--- /dev/null
+++ b/day06/part1
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env ruby
+
+input = gets.chomp.split("\t").map(&:to_i)
+
+def index_of_max(arr)
+  idx = 0
+  max = 0
+
+  (0...arr.length).each do |i|
+    if arr[i] > max then
+      idx = i
+      max = arr[i]
+    end
+  end
+
+  return idx
+end
+
+def redistribute(arr, idx)
+  new = arr.dup
+  len = new.length
+
+  blks = new[idx]
+  new[idx] = 0
+
+  i = idx
+  while blks > 0 do
+    i = (i + 1) % len
+    new[i] += 1
+    blks -= 1
+  end
+
+  return new
+end
+
+previous = []
+state = input.dup
+steps = 0
+
+until previous.include?(state) do
+  newstate = redistribute(state, index_of_max(state))
+  previous << state
+  state = newstate
+  steps += 1
+end
+
+puts steps
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