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 107 <article class="day-desc"><h2>--- Day 10: Balance Bots ---</h2><p>You come upon a factory in which many robots are <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnkMyfQ5YfY&t=40">zooming around</a> handing small microchips to each other.</p>
 108 <p>Upon closer examination, you notice that each bot only proceeds when it has <em>two</em> microchips, and once it does, it gives each one to a different bot or puts it in a marked "output" bin. Sometimes, bots take microchips from "input" bins, too.</p>
 109 <p>Inspecting one of the microchips, it seems like they each contain a single number; the bots must use some logic to decide what to do with each chip. You access the local control computer and download the bots' instructions (your puzzle input).</p>
 110 <p>Some of the instructions specify that a specific-valued microchip should be given to a specific bot; the rest of the instructions indicate what a given bot should do with its <em>lower-value</em> or <em>higher-value</em> chip.</p>
 111 <p>For example, consider the following instructions:</p>
 112 <pre><code>value 5 goes to bot 2
 113 bot 2 gives low to bot 1 and high to bot 0
 114 value 3 goes to bot 1
 115 bot 1 gives low to output 1 and high to bot 0
 116 bot 0 gives low to output 2 and high to output 0
 117 value 2 goes to bot 2
 118 </code></pre>
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 120 <li>Initially, bot <code>1</code> starts with a value-<code>3</code> chip, and bot <code>2</code> starts with a value-<code>2</code> chip and a value-<code>5</code> chip.</li>
 121 <li>Because bot <code>2</code> has two microchips, it gives its lower one (<code>2</code>) to bot <code>1</code> and its higher one (<code>5</code>) to bot <code>0</code>.</li>
 122 <li>Then, bot <code>1</code> has two microchips; it puts the value-<code>2</code> chip in output <code>1</code> and gives the value-<code>3</code> chip to bot <code>0</code>.</li>
 123 <li>Finally, bot <code>0</code> has two microchips; it puts the <code>3</code> in output <code>2</code> and the <code>5</code> in output <code>0</code>.</li>
 124 </ul>
 125 <p>In the end, output bin <code>0</code> contains a value-<code>5</code> microchip, output bin <code>1</code> contains a value-<code>2</code> microchip, and output bin <code>2</code> contains a value-<code>3</code> microchip. In this configuration, bot number <em><code>2</code></em> is responsible for comparing value-<code>5</code> microchips with value-<code>2</code> microchips.</p>
 126 <p>Based on your instructions, <em>what is the number of the bot</em> that is responsible for comparing value-<code>61</code> microchips with value-<code>17</code> microchips?</p>
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 128 <p>Your puzzle answer was <code>86</code>.</p><article class="day-desc"><h2>--- Part Two ---</h2><p><span title="What do you get if you multiply six by nine?">What do you get</span> if you <em>multiply together the values</em> of one chip in each of outputs <code>0</code>, <code>1</code>, and <code>2</code>?</p>
 129 </article>
 130 <p>Your puzzle answer was <code>22847</code>.</p><p class="day-success">Both parts of this puzzle are complete! They provide two gold stars: **</p>
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