from operator import mul from functools import reduce from itertools import combinations from itertools import takewhile f = open("input.txt") presents = list(map(int,f.readlines())) num_presents = len(presents) total_weight = sum(presents) balance_weight = total_weight//3 candidates = [] for i in range(10): for combo in combinations(presents,i): combo_sum = sum(combo) if combo_sum == balance_weight: candidates.append(list(combo)) candidates.sort(key=lambda i: len(i)) shortest_len = len(candidates[0]) candidates = takewhile(lambda i: len(i) == shortest_len, candidates) quantums = [reduce(mul,c,1) for c in candidates] quantums.sort() print(quantums[0])