copy pasting the rules from last year’s thread:

Rules: no spoilers.

The other rules are made up aswe go along.

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  • @swlabr
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    213 days ago
    re: branch cutting

    IDK if this is what your issue was, but one thing I ran into was that if you do something like if (current_total >= target) prune(), this can be problematic because if the tail end of the data is 0s and 1s, you exit too early. Basically I would prune strictly when the current total > target.

    • @gerikson
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      213 days ago
      re: branch cutting

      thanks for the tip, I looked into it again and I found I was cutting in the wrong place. Fixed now, and halves the time for part 2

      • @swlabr
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        213 days ago

        We love to see it