Predicting the amount of sales with 6 nodes?

[Bannish]

I am trying to get to the gold medal in the "predicting the amount of sales" problem. i think, there is something obvious, that i am missing, but i only get a viable solution with 7 nodes. can someone give me a little hint, how i can get the gold medal which needs 6 nodes?

[Finn Bálor]

If I understood the problem which you are referring to (i.e. the one whose output streams are

0: 11 red
2: 5 green
3: 11 green or blue
4: 5 blue)

then there is a solution with 5 nodes. First, start off with a balancer, so as to obtain two fast input streams. Now use colour decision trees to separate the two incoming streams appropriately (4 should suffice).

I can post a screenshot of my solution if you like.

(Note that I don't know if/how much the upgrades influenced the result).

[Bannish]

i tried your solution, it seems to work almost fine, but at the end, i am missing 1 at output 2 and 1 at output 4. and i have no idea, how i could get it to wirk right

[Bannish]

ok, i just worked it out, with an additional color desicion tree, i got them to sort how they were needed. thank you for your help :-D

[Finn Bálor]

Excellent! Glad to help!

[Jaden]

I couldn't create the solutions you obviously found, but a similar one: starting with a balancer (1) to use parallel computing I then sorted both beams into red/blue (2&3). Then both red beams go into the same red/green divider (4) and both blue beams into the same green/blue divider (5). The green from (4) go into the 11 green/blue output. The green from (5) into the green-only output. The blue from (5) go into another balancer (6) which feeds the 11 and the blue-only outputs.