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--- Day 15: Science for Hungry People ---
Today, you set out on the task of perfecting your milk-dunking cookie recipe. All you have to do is find the right balance of ingredients.
Your recipe leaves room for exactly 100 teaspoons of ingredients. You
make a list of the remaining ingredients you could use to finish the
recipe (your puzzle input) and their properties per teaspoon:
capacity(how well it helps the cookie absorb milk)durability(how well it keeps the cookie intact when full of milk)flavor(how tasty it makes the cookie)texture(how it improves the feel of the cookie)calories(how many calories it adds to the cookie)
You can only measure ingredients in whole-teaspoon amounts accurately,
and you have to be accurate so you can reproduce your results in the
future. The total score of a cookie can be found by adding up each of
the properties (negative totals become 0) and then multiplying
together everything except calories.
For instance, suppose you have [these two ingredients]{title="* I know what your preference is, but..."}:
Butterscotch: capacity -1, durability -2, flavor 6, texture 3, calories 8
Cinnamon: capacity 2, durability 3, flavor -2, texture -1, calories 3
Then, choosing to use 44 teaspoons of butterscotch and 56 teaspoons
of cinnamon (because the amounts of each ingredient must add up to
100) would result in a cookie with the following properties:
- A
capacityof44*-1 + 56*2 = 68 - A
durabilityof44*-2 + 56*3 = 80 - A
flavorof44*6 + 56*-2 = 152 - A
textureof44*3 + 56*-1 = 76
Multiplying these together (68 * 80 * 152 * 76, ignoring calories
for now) results in a total score of 62842880, which happens to be the
best score possible given these ingredients. If any properties had
produced a negative total, it would have instead become zero, causing
the whole score to multiply to zero.
Given the ingredients in your kitchen and their properties, what is the total score of the highest-scoring cookie you can make?
To begin, get your puzzle input.
Answer: