Programming, Topic: Knapsack Problem

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AoC 2025 Day 12: Knapsackinator

Source: Day 12: Christmas Tree Farm

Full solution for today (spoilers!).

Part 1

Solve the knapsack problem.

But really, you are given a set of tiles (which all happen to be some subset of a 3x3) and a set of constraints–a MxN grid and how many of each tile to place. Count how many constraints are possible.

Tiles may be rotated and/or flipped.

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