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<title>Day 12 - Advent of Code 2016</title>
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<article class="day-desc"><h2>--- Day 12: Leonardo's Monorail ---</h2><p>You finally reach the top floor of this building: a garden with a slanted glass ceiling. Looks like there are no more stars to be had.</p>
<p>While sitting on a nearby bench amidst some <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=tiger+lilies&tbm=isch">tiger lilies</a>, you manage to decrypt some of the files you extracted from the servers downstairs.</p>
<p>According to these documents, Easter Bunny HQ isn't just this building - it's a collection of buildings in the nearby area. They're all connected by a local monorail, and there's another building not far from here! Unfortunately, being night, the monorail is currently not operating.</p>
<p>You remotely connect to the monorail control systems and discover that the boot sequence expects a password. The password-checking logic (your puzzle input) is easy to extract, but the code it uses is strange: it's <span title="Strangely, this assembunny code doesn't seem to be very good at multiplying.">assembunny</span> code designed for the <a href="11">new computer</a> you just assembled. You'll have to execute the code and get the password.</p>
<p>The assembunny code you've extracted operates on four <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Processor_register">registers</a> (<code>a</code>, <code>b</code>, <code>c</code>, and <code>d</code>) that start at <code>0</code> and can hold any <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer">integer</a>. However, it seems to make use of only a few <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instruction_set">instructions</a>:</p>
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<li><code>cpy x y</code> <em>copies</em> <code>x</code> (either an integer or the <em>value</em> of a register) into register <code>y</code>.</li>
<li><code>inc x</code> <em>increases</em> the value of register <code>x</code> by one.</li>
<li><code>dec x</code> <em>decreases</em> the value of register <code>x</code> by one.</li>
<li><code>jnz x y</code> <em>jumps</em> to an instruction <code>y</code> away (positive means forward; negative means backward), but only if <code>x</code> is <em>not zero</em>.</li>
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<p>The <code>jnz</code> instruction moves relative to itself: an offset of <code>-1</code> would continue at the previous instruction, while an offset of <code>2</code> would <em>skip over</em> the next instruction.</p>
<p>For example:</p>
<pre><code>cpy 41 a
inc a
inc a
dec a
jnz a 2
dec a
</code></pre>
<p>The above code would set register <code>a</code> to <code>41</code>, increase its value by <code>2</code>, decrease its value by <code>1</code>, and then skip the last <code>dec a</code> (because <code>a</code> is not zero, so the <code>jnz a 2</code> skips it), leaving register <code>a</code> at <code>42</code>. When you move past the last instruction, the program halts.</p>
<p>After executing the assembunny code in your puzzle input, <em>what value is left in register <code>a</code>?</em></p>
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<p>Your puzzle answer was <code>318083</code>.</p><article class="day-desc"><h2 id="part2">--- Part Two ---</h2><p>As you head down the fire escape to the monorail, you notice it didn't start; register <code>c</code> needs to be initialized to the position of the ignition key.</p>
<p>If you instead <em>initialize register <code>c</code> to be <code>1</code></em>, what value is now left in register <code>a</code>?</p>
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<p>Your puzzle answer was <code>9227737</code>.</p><p class="day-success">Both parts of this puzzle are complete! They provide two gold stars: **</p>
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