This week’s challenge is borrowed from Advent of Code: Day 2, as featured on The Buzz.
Day 2: I Was Told There Would Be No Math
The elves are running low on wrapping paper, and so they need to submit an order for more. They have a list of the dimensions (length l, width w, and height h) of each present, and only want to order exactly as much as they need.
Fortunately, every present is a box (a perfect right rectangular prism), which makes calculating the required wrapping
paper for each gift a little easier: find the surface area of the box, which is 2 * l * w + 2 * w * h + 2 * h * l
. The
elves also need a little extra paper for each present: the area of the smallest side.
For example:
A present with dimensions 2x3x4 requires 2 * 6 + 2 * 12 + 2 * 8 = 52 square feet of wrapping paper plus 6 square
feet of slack, for a total of 58 square feet.
A present with dimensions 1x1x10 requires 2 * 1 + 2 * 10 + 2 * 10 = 42 square feet of wrapping paper plus 1 square
foot of slack, for a total of 43 square feet.
All numbers in the elves’ list are in feet. How many total square feet of wrapping paper should they order?
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composer install
- Run
php index.php
- Run
vendor/bin/phpunit