From 561edcc1a510962092e572d91c9373cbe5bf1626 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brechtje van Gessel <bevang@live.nl>
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2025 23:33:48 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] day 3 part 1 solved!

---
 brechtje/3/3-1.py | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 brechtje/3/3-1.py

diff --git a/brechtje/3/3-1.py b/brechtje/3/3-1.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e99ad7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/brechtje/3/3-1.py
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+input = open("input.txt").read().splitlines()
+
+def find_biggest_num(line, start, is_first_num):
+    num = -1
+    max_num = 9
+    while True:
+        num = line.find(str(max_num), start)
+        if num == -1 or (is_first_num and num == len(line) - 1):
+            max_num -= 1
+        else:
+            return num
+answer = 0
+
+for line in input:
+    first_num = find_biggest_num(line, 0, True)
+    second_num = find_biggest_num(line, first_num + 1, False)
+    answer += int(line[first_num] + line[second_num])
+
+print(answer)
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