Does anyone know of a resource for generating/gett...

# advent-of-code

[mickeelm]

Does anyone know of a resource for generating/getting very large valid puzzle inputs?

[Jakub Gwóźdź]

I thought of the same initially, but for day02 there is no point because each entry is independent, on day01 on the other hand - the sum is only 2020, so any larger input set would render the task easier instead of harder 🙂

[mickeelm]

Hmm, not sure if I follow 🙂 What I mean by large input, is more rows in the input. Did you also mean that or did you mean larger/longer values?

[Jakub Gwóźdź]

yeah I was also thinking of more rows.
so in day01 it would be great to have larger inputs, and it'll help testing the big O complexity of solution. but then, the expected sum would also need to be way larger than 2020

[mickeelm]

Ah 🙂

[todd.ginsberg]

What if you used negative numbers?

[mickeelm]

Yeah that would be something! Anyhow, it would be a pretty cool "extra feature" to add for AoC. Just as a bonus to put some stress on your solution. Just for fun

[todd.ginsberg]

Are you on reddit? I have been trying to avoid it lately, but last year lots of people posted "Upping the Ante" versions of their solutions (much larger input, complicating the problem in some way, a nice visualization, etc). I bet this would go over well.

[mickeelm]

I am! I haven't really checked thos posts though but it sounds like what I'm after then. Thanks!