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  98 <article class="day-desc"><h2>--- Day 9: Sensor Boost ---</h2><p>You've just said goodbye to the rebooted rover and left Mars when you receive a faint distress signal coming from the asteroid belt.  It must be the Ceres monitoring station!</p>
  99 <p>In order to lock on to the signal, you'll need to boost your sensors. The Elves send up the latest <em>BOOST</em> program - Basic Operation Of System Test.</p>
 100 <p>While BOOST (your puzzle input) is capable of boosting your sensors, for <span title="Oh sure, NOW safety is a priority.">tenuous safety reasons</span>, it refuses to do so until the computer it runs on passes some checks to demonstrate it is a <em>complete Intcode computer</em>.</p>
 101 <p><a href="5">Your existing Intcode computer</a> is missing one key feature: it needs support for parameters in <em>relative mode</em>.</p>
 102 <p>Parameters in mode <code>2</code>, <em>relative mode</em>, behave very similarly to parameters in <em>position mode</em>: the parameter is interpreted as a position.  Like position mode, parameters in relative mode can be read from or written to.</p>
 103 <p>The important difference is that relative mode parameters don't count from address <code>0</code>.  Instead, they count from a value called the <em>relative base</em>. The <em>relative base</em> starts at <code>0</code>.</p>
 104 <p>The address a relative mode parameter refers to is itself <em>plus</em> the current <em>relative base</em>. When the relative base is <code>0</code>, relative mode parameters and position mode parameters with the same value refer to the same address.</p>
 105 <p>For example, given a relative base of <code>50</code>, a relative mode parameter of <code>-7</code> refers to memory address <code>50 + -7 = <em>43</em></code>.</p>
 106 <p>The relative base is modified with the <em>relative base offset</em> instruction:</p>
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 108 <li>Opcode <code>9</code> <em>adjusts the relative base</em> by the value of its only parameter. The relative base increases (or decreases, if the value is negative) by the value of the parameter.</li>
 109 </ul>
 110 <p>For example, if the relative base is <code>2000</code>, then after the instruction <code>109,19</code>, the relative base would be <code>2019</code>. If the next instruction were <code>204,-34</code>, then the value at address <code>1985</code> would be output.</p>
 111 <p>Your Intcode computer will also need a few other capabilities:</p>
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 113 <li>The computer's available memory should be much larger than the initial program. Memory beyond the initial program starts with the value <code>0</code> and can be read or written like any other memory. (It is invalid to try to access memory at a negative address, though.)</li>
 114 <li>The computer should have support for large numbers. Some instructions near the beginning of the BOOST program will verify this capability.</li>
 115 </ul>
 116 <p>Here are some example programs that use these features:</p>
 117 <ul>
 118 <li><code>109,1,204,-1,1001,100,1,100,1008,100,16,101,1006,101,0,99</code> takes no input and produces a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_(computing)">copy of itself</a> as output.</li>
 119 <li><code>1102,34915192,34915192,7,4,7,99,0</code> should output a 16-digit number.</li>
 120 <li><code>104,1125899906842624,99</code> should output the large number in the middle.</li>
 121 </ul>
 122 <p>The BOOST program will ask for a single input; run it in test mode by providing it the value <code>1</code>. It will perform a series of checks on each opcode, output any opcodes (and the associated parameter modes) that seem to be functioning incorrectly, and finally output a BOOST keycode.</p>
 123 <p>Once your Intcode computer is fully functional, the BOOST program should report no malfunctioning opcodes when run in test mode; it should only output a single value, the BOOST keycode. <em>What BOOST keycode does it produce?</em></p>
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 125 <p>Your puzzle answer was <code>3340912345</code>.</p><article class="day-desc"><h2 id="part2">--- Part Two ---</h2><p><em>You now have a complete Intcode computer.</em></p>
 126 <p>Finally, you can lock on to the Ceres distress signal! You just need to boost your sensors using the BOOST program.</p>
 127 <p>The program runs in sensor boost mode by providing the input instruction the value <code>2</code>.  Once run, it will boost the sensors automatically, but it might take a few seconds to complete the operation on slower hardware.  In sensor boost mode, the program will output a single value: <em>the coordinates of the distress signal</em>.</p>
 128 <p>Run the BOOST program in sensor boost mode.  <em>What are the coordinates of the distress signal?</em></p>
 129 </article>
 130 <p>Your puzzle answer was <code>51754</code>.</p><p class="day-success">Both parts of this puzzle are complete! They provide two gold stars: **</p>
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