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+text: str
+
+with open("input.txt") as f:
+    text = f.read()
+
+lines: list[str] = text.splitlines()
+data: list[list[str]] = [line.split("   ") for line in lines]
+
+right_data: list[str] = [tmp[1] for tmp in data]
+left_data: list[str] = [tmp[0] for tmp in data]
+
+right: list[int] = list(map(int, right_data))
+left: list[int] = list(map(int, left_data))
+
+right.sort()
+left.sort()
+
+print(sum(map(abs, [a_i - b_i for a_i, b_i in zip(left, right)])))
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