From 0caad8b5b048c0c96b83d75b7d95f77262cb79b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "RingOfStorms (Joshua Bell)" <ringofstorms@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2023 03:49:16 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] push

---
 src/bin/day14.rs | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/bin/day14.rs b/src/bin/day14.rs
index d209164..3a735e1 100644
--- a/src/bin/day14.rs
+++ b/src/bin/day14.rs
@@ -175,7 +175,11 @@ fn part2(input: String) -> Result<usize> {
         scores.push(dish.calculate_north_load());
         if let Some(repeated_index) = seen.get(&dish) {
             // Figure out final score based on sliding window of known scores within the
-            // repeated pattern
+            // repeated pattern:
+            //
+            // (cycles - repeated index) gives us the remaining times we need to run through. We
+            // then get the remainder of that divided by the difference of the current index minus
+            // all seen (total repeating count).
             answer = scores
                 [repeated_index - 1 + (cycles - repeated_index) % (seen.len() - repeated_index)];
             break;