# README
--- Day 4: The Ideal Stocking Stuffer ---
Santa needs help mining some AdventCoins (very similar to bitcoins) to use as gifts for all the economically forward-thinking little girls and boys.
To do this, he needs to find MD5 hashes
which, in hexadecimal, start with at least five zeroes
.
The input to the MD5 hash is some secret key
(your puzzle input, given below)
followed by a number in decimal
. To mine AdventCoins, you must find Santa the lowest positive number
(no leading zeroes: 1, 2, 3, ...) that produces such a hash
.
For example:
-
If your secret key is
abcdef
, the answer is609043
, because the MD5 hash ofabcdef609043
starts with five zeroes (000001dbbfa
...), and it is the lowest such number to do so. -
If your secret key is
pqrstuv
, the lowest number it combines with to make an MD5 hash starting with five zeroes is1048970
; that is, the MD5 hash ofpqrstuv1048970
looks like000006136ef
....
--- Part Two --- Now find one that starts with six zeroes.