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https://adventofcode.com/2024/day/5
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Good luck 
FYI one of the features of Advent of Code is that we all get given different inputs so our answers will be different.
The examples are all the same but each of us gets different inputs for us to solve
Part 1 done - wasn't too bad
For Part 2 I'm going for the brute force approach to find correct page order so leaving it running in another browser window
[edit]Brute force approach crashed by browser after 2 hours so I put a bit of brain effort in and now got it working 
https://snap.berkeley.edu/snap/snap.html#present:Username=cymplecy&ProjectName=aoc2024_05&editMode
Link corrected - thanks @sathvikrias
here is my very long solution:
part1

Eh… I’ll finish p2 tomorrow.
p2:
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