Advent of Code - Day 4 Solution

advent-of-code-day-4-part-1.js

// Crypto JS MD5 library was used. https://code.google.com/p/crypto-js/#MD5

var CryptoJS = require('./md5');

var MD5 = CryptoJS.Crypto.MD5;

var input = 'ckczppom';

var adventCoin = 0;

var i = 0;

console.time('mineAdvent');

while ( adventCoin === 0 ){
  
  hash = MD5( input + i.toString() ).toString();
  
  first5 = hash.slice(0,5);

  if ( i % 25000 === 0 ){
  	console.log(hash);
  }

  if (first5 === '00000' ){
    adventCoin = i;
  }

  i++;

}
console.timeEnd('mineAdvent');

console.log( 'The answer is: ' + adventCoin );