i might be crazy...

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i might be crazy...

Postby Stofferken » Tue Oct 18, 2005 4:13 pm

... but i wonder how many grid combinations there are with a 16x16:?:
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Postby Pi » Tue Oct 25, 2005 4:06 pm

lots?

I reckon more than there are in 9X9
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Postby kjellfp » Wed Oct 26, 2005 6:26 am

Guenter has an estimate of 1e107, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics_of_Sudoku.

I'm wotking on 12*12 (dividing the grid into boxes of size 4x3). I'll guess that the 16*16-sudokus need lots of years to complete, and will never be done even with a revolution in algorithms and hardware.
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