I have been using Rust on and off for the past five years or so, first picking it up around the time release 1.0 dropped. I then seriously learned the language in 2019, and, thanks to coding events such as Advent of Code, found a reason to make (arguably) beautiful code that trained me to make...

This year, like the last, I participated in Advent of Code, an online event where a new algorithmics puzzle is unlocked every day of december before and on the 25th. For each day, the same puzzle idea yields two small exercises, one typically easier than the other.

I chose Rust, like last year...