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diff --git a/day9-rope-bridge.lisp b/day9-rope-bridge.lisp
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+;; https://adventofcode.com/2022/day/9
+
+;; i have been thinking about this in a car on a way home.
+;; first check - if any movement of Tail is needed - if any coord is more than 2 away
+;;
+;; then - if movement is needed - it's always done in 1 step into direction of Head.
+;; - if difference is 0, no movement, otherwise (HeadX - TailX) / Abs(HeadX - TailX)
+;;
+;; and what's left is reading in changes to Head position, update of head position,
+;; and calling generation of new Tail position from newHead and prevTail
+;;
+;; no need to worry about the borders, as Head is always closer to border?
+
+;; so, the field should be considered unbounded. and no coordinates for the starting point are given.
+;; we are also to consider that in the beginning Head is on top of Tail.
+;; ok. would my math work with negative coordinates? it really should
+;; so, let's consider starting coordinates as (0,0) and also keep a set of all preivously visited coordinates by the Tail
+;; and return its size
+(defmacro get-x (pointCoords)
+  `(car ,pointCoords))
+(defmacro get-y (pointCoords)
+  `(cadr ,pointCoords))
+
+(setf (get-x '(1 2)) 3)
+(defparameter *test-list* (list 1 2))
+(setf (get-x *test-list*) 2)
+(setf (get-y *test-list*) 7)
+
+(setf (first *test-list*) 3)
+(get-y '(1 2))
+
+(abs -1)
+
+
+(defun tail-move-needed (headCoords tailCoords)
+  (flet ((diff-more-than-two (num1 num2)
+           (>= (abs (- num1 num2)) 2)))
+    (or (diff-more-than-two (get-x headcoords) (get-x tailcoords))
+        (diff-more-than-two (get-y headcoords) (get-y tailcoords)))))
+
+(>= 2 2)
+(tail-move-needed '(1 1) '(1 1))
+(tail-move-needed '(1 1) '(1 2))
+(tail-move-needed '(1 1) '(1 3))
+(tail-move-needed '(1 1) '(2 3))
+(tail-move-needed '(1 1) '(0 0))
+
+(defun update-big-distance-coord (headcoord tailcoord)
+  (let* ((diff (- headcoord tailcoord))
+         (change (if (eq diff 0) 0 (/ diff (abs diff)))))
+    (+ tailcoord change)))
+
+(defun update-big-distance-coords (headcoords tailcoords)
+  (let ((new-x (update-big-distance-coord (get-x headcoords) (get-x tailcoords)))
+        (new-y (update-big-distance-coord (get-y headcoords) (get-y tailcoords))))
+    (list new-x new-y)))
+
+(update-big-distance-coords '(2 1) '(0 0))
+(update-big-distance-coords '(-2 0) '(0 0))
+(update-big-distance-coords '(0 -2) '(0 0))
+
+(defun get-new-tail-coords (headcoords tailcoords)
+  (if (tail-move-needed headcoords tailcoords)
+      (update-big-distance-coords headcoords tailcoords)
+      tailcoords))
+
+(get-new-tail-coords '(1 1) '(0 0))
+(get-new-tail-coords '(-1 0) '(0 0))
+(get-new-tail-coords '(1 -1) '(0 0))
+
+;; ok, now i need to translate commands of type
+;; R 4
+(defparameter *test-line* "R 4")
+(require 'cl-ppcre)
+(let ((split  (cl-ppcre:split " " *test-line*)))
+  (setf (first split) (intern (first split)))
+  (setf (second split) (parse-integer (second split)))
+  split)
+
+(defun read-comman (line)
+  (let ((split  (cl-ppcre:split " " line)))
+    (setf (first split)
+          (intern (first split)))
+    (setf (second split)
+          (parse-integer (second split)))
+    split))
+
+(read-comman "U 5")
+
+(defun modify-head-coords (headcoords direction)
+  (case direction
+    (R (incf (get-x headcoords) 1))
+    (L (incf (get-x headcoords) -1))
+    (U (incf (get-y headcoords) 1))
+    (D (incf (get-y headcoords) -1))))
+
+(defparameter *test-coords* (list 0 0))
+(modify-head-coords *test-coords* 'L)
+(modify-head-coords *test-coords* 'R)
+(modify-head-coords *test-coords* 'U)
+(modify-head-coords *test-coords* 'D)
+
+;; seems to work.
+;; now loop and addint tail coords into set
+(ql:quickload 'fset)
+(defparameter *test-set* (fset:set '(0 0) '(1 1)))
+(fset:with *test-set* '(3 1))
+(fset:with *test-set* '(1 1))
+;; yes, with equal, that's cool
+
+(loop
+  for i from 1 to 4
+  do (print i))
+;; got I forgot most of what there is about input attribute
+;; modification, when will that modification become visible on top?
+;; when I've defined the value as parameter, so it's dynamic binding,
+;; instead of lexical binding?
+;; ((tail-coords-set (fset:empty-set))
+;;       (headcoords (list 0 0))
+;;       (tailcoords (list 0 0)))
+(progn
+  (defvar tail-coords-set )
+  (setq tail-coords-set (fset:empty-set))
+  (defvar headcoords )
+  (setq headcoords (list 0 0))
+  (defvar tailcoords )
+  (setq tailcoords (list 0 0)))
+
+(defun run-step (direction)
+  (modify-head-coords headcoords direction)
+  (setf tailcoords (get-new-tail-coords headcoords tailcoords))
+  (setf tail-coords-set (fset:with tail-coords-set tailcoords))
+  ;; (print (format t "~S ~S ~S~%" headcoords tailcoords direction))
+  )
+
+(defun run-command (repetitions direction)
+  (loop for i from 1 to repetitions
+        do (progn (run-step direction)
+                  ;; (format t "~S ~S ~S ~S~%" headcoords tailcoords direction tail-coords-set)
+                  )))
+(progn
+  (defvar tail-coords-set )
+  (setq tail-coords-set (fset:empty-set))
+  (defvar headcoords )
+  (setq headcoords (list 0 0))
+  (defvar tailcoords )
+  (setq tailcoords (list 0 0))
+  (with-open-file (in "day9-input.txt")
+    (loop
+      for line = (read-line in nil nil)
+      while line
+      do (let*
+             ((command (read-comman line))
+              (direction (first command))
+              (repetition (second command)))
+           (run-command repetition direction)))
+    (fset:size tail-coords-set)))
+
+;;; PART 2
+;; i kind of predicted that they'd want to generalize to longer rope.
+;; ugh. but it still kind of works?
+;; just have list of rope points?
+;; and each step would be applying same step to some particular point
+;;  - logging is not much less useful
+;; the points are H1234..9
+;; so, array of length 10
+(progn
+  (defvar *string-joints*)
+  ;; (setq *string-joints* (make-array 10 :initial-element '(0 0)))
+  ;; wow, here's example of code being AST directly from text
+  ;; now, it's problem with "initial-element" cool
+  (defvar *9-tail-coords-set*)
+  (loop
+    for i from 0 to 9
+    do (setf (aref *string-joints* i) (list 0 0)))
+  (setq *9-tail-coords-set* (fset:empty-set)))
+
+(defun run-step-2 (direction)
+  (modify-head-coords (aref *string-joints* 0) direction)
+  (loop
+    for cur-joint-step from 1 to 9
+    do (setf (aref *string-joints* cur-joint-step)
+             (get-new-tail-coords
+              (aref *string-joints* (1- cur-joint-step))
+              (aref *string-joints* cur-joint-step))))
+  (setf *9-tail-coords-set*
+        (fset:with *9-tail-coords-set* (aref *string-joints* 9))))
+
+(defun run-command-2 (repetitions direction)
+  (loop for i from 1 to repetitions
+        do (progn (run-step-2 direction)
+                  ;; (format t "~S ~S ~S ~S~%" headcoords tailcoords direction tail-coords-set)
+                  )))
+
+(progn
+  (loop
+    for i from 0 to 9
+    do (setf (aref *string-joints* i) (list 0 0)))
+  (setq *9-tail-coords-set* (fset:empty-set))
+  (with-open-file (in "day9-input.txt")
+    (loop
+      for line = (read-line in nil nil)
+      while line
+      do (let*
+             ((command (read-comman line))
+              (direction (first command))
+              (repetition (second command)))
+           (run-command-2 repetition direction)))
+    (fset:size *9-tail-coords-set*)))
diff --git a/day9-test-bigger.txt b/day9-test-bigger.txt
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+R 5
+U 8
+L 8
+D 3
+R 17
+D 10
+L 25
+U 20
diff --git a/day9-test.txt b/day9-test.txt
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+++ b/day9-test.txt
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+R 4
+U 4
+L 3
+D 1
+R 4
+D 1
+L 5
+R 2