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Dude, a sudoku solver is really directly solved via brute force search. If a coder can't come up with the brute force algorithm for a 9x9 sudoku board, there's
by earl 17y ago
Dude, a sudoku solver is really directly solved via brute force search. If a coder can't come up with the brute force algorithm for a 9x9 sudoku board, there's something wrong with that person.
- eru 17y agoBrute force? You can write a solver in 15 simple lines of Zimpl code (pun intended), that uses state-of-the-art constraint propagation and all that. http://www.zib.de/Publications/Reports/ZR-05-51.pdf http://www.zib.de/Publications/Reports/ZR-05-51.pdf
- toadpipe 17y agoThe point is that some people are too blinded by their ideology to even come up with a crude solution, let alone an elegant one.