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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17 lines
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171 ORE => 8 CNZTR
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7 ZLQW, 3 BMBT, 9 XCVML, 26 XMNCP, 1 WPTQ, 2 MZWV, 1 RJRHP => 4 PLWSL
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114 ORE => 4 BHXH
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14 VRPVC => 6 BMBT
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6 BHXH, 18 KTJDG, 12 WPTQ, 7 PLWSL, 31 FHTLT, 37 ZDVW => 1 FUEL
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6 WPTQ, 2 BMBT, 8 ZLQW, 18 KTJDG, 1 XMNCP, 6 MZWV, 1 RJRHP => 6 FHTLT
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15 XDBXC, 2 LTCX, 1 VRPVC => 6 ZLQW
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13 WPTQ, 10 LTCX, 3 RJRHP, 14 XMNCP, 2 MZWV, 1 ZLQW => 1 ZDVW
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5 BMBT => 4 WPTQ
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189 ORE => 9 KTJDG
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1 MZWV, 17 XDBXC, 3 XCVML => 2 XMNCP
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12 VRPVC, 27 CNZTR => 2 XDBXC
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15 KTJDG, 12 BHXH => 5 XCVML
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3 BHXH, 2 VRPVC => 7 MZWV
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121 ORE => 7 VRPVC
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7 XCVML => 6 RJRHP
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5 BHXH, 4 VRPVC => 5 LTCX |