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author Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jordigh@octave.org>
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+--- Day 8: I Heard You Like Registers ---
+
+You receive a signal directly from the CPU. Because of your recent
+assistance with jump instructions, it would like you to compute the
+result of a series of unusual register instructions.
+
+Each instruction consists of several parts: the register to modify,
+whether to increase or decrease that register's value, the amount by
+which to increase or decrease it, and a condition. If the condition
+fails, skip the instruction without modifying the register. The
+registers all start at 0. The instructions look like this:
+
+b inc 5 if a > 1
+a inc 1 if b < 5
+c dec -10 if a >= 1
+c inc -20 if c == 10
+
+These instructions would be processed as follows:
+
+    Because a starts at 0, it is not greater than 1, and so b is not
+    modified.
+
+    a is increased by 1 (to 1) because b is less than 5 (it is 0).
+
+    c is decreased by -10 (to 10) because a is now greater than or
+    equal to 1 (it is 1).
+
+    c is increased by -20 (to -10) because c is equal to 10.
+
+After this process, the largest value in any register is 1.
+
+You might also encounter <= (less than or equal to) or != (not equal
+to). However, the CPU doesn't have the bandwidth to tell you what all
+the registers are named, and leaves that to you to determine.
+
+What is the largest value in any register after completing the
+instructions in your puzzle input?
+
+Your puzzle answer was 4902.
+
+--- Part Two ---
+
+To be safe, the CPU also needs to know the highest value held in any
+register during this process so that it can decide how much memory to
+allocate to these operations. For example, in the above instructions,
+the highest value ever held was 10 (in register c after the third
+instruction was evaluated).
+
+Your puzzle answer was 7037.
+
+Both parts of this puzzle are complete! They provide two gold stars: **