[ExI] Zen19 is now at 5-dan in Go

[spike]

From: spike [mailto:spike66 at att.net] 
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>…Ja.  A few years ago, I wrote an excel script which solves sudokus.  It can take a couple days to solve one.  I am not arguing that it is an efficient algorithm.  {8^D  I would argue however that the act of writing those kinds of scripts is good for the brain.  spike

 

I left out a critically important detail.  The usual 9x9 sudokus can be solved by this algorithm in about a half a second usually.  I don’t remember the exact score, but I think it was generating and solving them about 150-ish per minute.

 

This algorithm can take up to 204x204 sudokus, and those biggies take a couple days each to solve, as I recall.  It has been a long time since I played with it, but I can find out the date, for I remember we had a huge solar event just as I was finishing that, and the huge X11 flare that took everyone by surprise, so I was immediately distracted by that and was too busy to mess with Sudoku for the next several weeks because of the flare.  Then I never got back to it, but as I vaguely recall, it was about 8 yrs ago.  I should resurrect that code to see if modern computers can solve it faster than the machine I was using back then, which was already outdated back then.

 

spike

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