bifurcate:
To divide into two parts or branches.
I'd also like to point out, just in case it wasn't clear the first time
lunababy_moonchild wrote: ...Whether or not you choose to do this is entirely up to you....
I'm sure that I've said this elsewhere but I personally don't like AT because I can't figure out how to follow the thread back if the wrong number is chosen. In the event that there is a way of doing this it seems to me that you'd make a right mess of the puzzle.
I either get the puzzle right or I don't. I'm not an expert on the subject - of AT or logic in general, nor on sudoku - but that's the opinion I hold.
For what it's worth I didn't say that the technique is wrong I just said that it was guessing, which in my opinion it is. I suppose that you could say, in programming parlance, that it was an if..then..else statement which I was taught was a logical technique (when it came to programming computers).
Once again, it really depends on how you personally want to play the game. There
is only one rule
.
rich12545 wrote:It looks like you find a difference between "trial and error" and "guess." I can see how you come up with this difference. You actually take two pencils and run each out to see if either leads to a logical conclusion. You look at this as no different from taking one cell and checking to see if this or that number will work. You see AT as doing the same thing but carrying it out more steps. Is this a correct assessment?
Looks like a fair assessment to me.
Luna