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+# adventofcode2017
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+Day One
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+Both of these solutions are in node.js, converting the captcha string into an array, and then iterating through the array converting the chars to integers and perfoming a sum if one interger matches the next (part one) or the intewger "opposite" it in the circular array (part two).