Parnic
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This one's part 1 destroyed me. I had a very difficult time, trying 3 separate approaches, each one of which worked for most cases but eventually fell apart on the 5th sample or my actual puzzle input. I ended up reading a bunch of hints from the subreddit which eventually led me to a blog post describing this solution, which wasn't far off from what I had, but I was overcomplicating things. Part 2 surprised me in that I expected a simple "ore available divided by ore needed for 1 fuel" would solve it, but of course the excess chemicals produced in any given reaction meant that it wasn't that simple. So this approach uses that estimate as a lower bound, since it always underestimates, and then bisects its way to the solution (starting at the lower bound and adding 1 each time took too long). I'm sure a smarter upper bound choice could lower the runtime of this by a bit, but runtime isn't bad enough right now for me to try any additional optimizations.
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157 ORE => 5 NZVS
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165 ORE => 6 DCFZ
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44 XJWVT, 5 KHKGT, 1 QDVJ, 29 NZVS, 9 GPVTF, 48 HKGWZ => 1 FUEL
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12 HKGWZ, 1 GPVTF, 8 PSHF => 9 QDVJ
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179 ORE => 7 PSHF
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177 ORE => 5 HKGWZ
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7 DCFZ, 7 PSHF => 2 XJWVT
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165 ORE => 2 GPVTF
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3 DCFZ, 7 NZVS, 5 HKGWZ, 10 PSHF => 8 KHKGT |