import math d = [ x.split(',') for x in open('input').read().splitlines() ] def a(d): #To be honest, I could've done this way quicker manually and got on the leaderboard. Formula is x - ID mod x for the waiting time x = int(d[0][0]) ids = [ int(x) for x in d[1] if x != 'x' ] delta = { id:(id - (x % id)) for id in ids if ( x := int(d[0][0]) )} minId = min(delta, key=delta.get) return (delta[minId]*minId) print(a(d)) def b(d): d = [ [-y,int(d[y])] for y in {i:d[i] for i in range(len(d))} if d[y] != 'x'] [ print(x) for x in d ] # generate numbers # I'm a math noob, so I just saw what everyone else is talking about and found this chinese remainder theorem. # Why does this work? I DONT KNOW. # I'll probably learn this when I get some formal CS education. # Used a solver for that. # x = 760171380521445 # x ≡ 0 mod 17 => x = n*17+0 # x ≡ −7 mod 41 => x = n*41-7 ??? # -7 because of # x ≡ −17 mod 643 # x ≡ −25 mod 23 # x ≡ −30 mod 13 # x ≡ −46 mod 29 # x ≡ −48 mod 433 # x ≡ −54 mod 37 # x ≡ −67 mod 19 b(d[1])