java: add solutions for year 2016, day 17 #108
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This was a simple enough graph search problem, again using Dijkstra's algorithm. One interesting thing is that every state here is unique, since the state is equal to the path, and the path is always appended to. As such, we do not need the usual set of visited states, since we are sure to never visit the same state twice.