Fortran - Re: Write a Fortran program to solve Sudoku puzzles :-)

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Re: Write a Fortran program to solve Sudoku puzzles :-)

Jan Vorbrüggen

2005-12-08, 7:59 am

> Try it by hand, though; comments welcome. Solving sudokus by program is
> boring, although writing the programs can be fun.

Agreed. However, it would be nice to have a little program that supports
one in filling it out; pencil and eraser can be a bit tedious.

I was surprised that one I found in an airline magazine with 23 entries was
actually solveable without guesswork and backtracking...but it did require
some time to get over several stumbling blocks at which I needed to invent
a new rule in order to make forward progress 8-).

Jan

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