Add solution to 2024-12-11

Author: fuglede

2024/day11/solutions.py

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+from collections import Counter
+
+with open("input") as f:
+    stones = Counter(map(int, f.read().split()))
+
+for blinks in range(1, 76):
+    new_stones = Counter()
+    for n, num_stone in stones.items():
+        if n == 0:
+            new_stones[1] += num_stone
+        elif len(s := str(n)) % 2 == 0:
+            for m in s[: len(s) // 2], s[len(s) // 2 :]:
+                new_stones[int(m)] += num_stone
+        else:
+            new_stones[2024 * n] += num_stone
+    stones = new_stones
+    if blinks in (25, 75):
+        print(sum(new_stones.values()))