PatmaxDaddy wrote:.... The first thing I did .... was to write a program to solve the puzzles ....
Smythe Dakota wrote:PatmaxDaddy wrote:.... The first thing I did .... was to write a program to solve the puzzles ....
Does your program also establish uniqueness, or does it stop as soon as it finds one solution?
Bill Smythe
Smythe Dakota wrote:Does your program also establish uniqueness, or does it stop as soon as it finds one solution?
PatmaxDaddy wrote:I am curious, however, if there are others like me who enjoy the math but have never tried the puzzle.
ab wrote:Smythe Dakota wrote:Does your program also establish uniqueness, or does it stop as soon as it finds one solution?
Bill Smythe
That's a strange question. If the program uses logic to find a solution, then if it finds a solution, it is de facto unique.
tarek wrote:That is unless you you base your logic on the fact that the puzzle has a unique solution when it actually has many.
ab wrote:methinks you refer to the strategy of if you have pairs at the corners of a rectangle except one cell has a third number, or summit like that.