Day 2: Gift Shop
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An ID is invalid if and only if it is divisible by a number of the form 1001001001, where the 1’s are separated by the same number of 0’s and the block length times the number of blocks equals the digit length of the ID. Given that, the problem reduces to summing the members of some arithmetic progressions; we never have to iterate over the members of a range at all.
Awesome! I was looking for this type of solution and made some progress but couldn’t get to it