From 951b042489bc761f974c6e0699ccbf404ad8f484 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: alexchao26 <alexchaoo@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2019 23:52:24 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] AoC day 1 - this is kinda fun

---
 src/main.go | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 src/main.go

diff --git a/src/main.go b/src/main.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..344c053
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main.go
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+package main
+
+import "fmt"
+
+// function to recursively find the value required for a single mass input
+func calcSingleFuel(mass int) int {
+	if mass/3-2 <= 0 {
+		return 0
+	}
+	// otherwise add this mass to recursive call of its own weight
+	return mass/3 - 2 + calcSingleFuel(mass/3-2)
+
+}
+func calcFuel(masses []int) int {
+	var sumFuel int
+	for _, v := range masses {
+		// go automatically rounds down for int division
+		sumFuel += calcSingleFuel(v)
+		// this may be a case for spinning up goroutines & using channels :)
+	}
+
+	return sumFuel
+}
+
+func main() {
+	fuelSum := calcFuel([]int{137857, 121089, 138217, 109202, 82225, 65823, 110808, 82512, 71144, 129168, 142785, 103418, 99710, 84192, 115757, 52318, 137911, 56254, 76634, 66071, 127842, 109339, 98408, 139481, 95628, 78679, 111571, 131078, 79085, 72375, 56248, 60740, 85461, 144773, 55946, 114634, 120127, 72284, 140489, 141471, 122177, 102224, 91708, 120190, 119453, 62930, 64543, 53581, 69276, 111118, 57458, 135155, 85937, 93962, 98877, 101615, 107952, 139285, 55459, 113772, 121742, 79283, 98389, 61720, 110494, 110170, 125851, 111776, 122679, 91843, 94138, 63348, 71461, 75067, 62334, 62799, 59647, 86722, 82468, 91995, 133229, 111361, 140125, 63884, 65911, 135857, 61515, 82726, 66453, 106329, 89199, 68089, 136698, 117180, 97577, 68922, 130528, 72076, 73691, 65800})
+	// print it to console (copy into advent of code manually...)
+	fmt.Println(fuelSum)
+}