22: The most important thing - Richard Buckland UNSW
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He's got a lot of points to remember. He's funny too.
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@axelasdf I do think this idea may have some flaws.
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I'd use a deductive method to solve the puzzle. Start with nine times as many cells, with 1-9 repeating, counting each set of nine as the possible values for one cell and eliminate all impossible choices until only one remains.
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What you're suggesting is in fact quite impossible (you're right to suspect that), but that's by far not the only way to solve a puzzle. The way I tend to solve the puzzle is using the same method a human would do it: have the program go through all blank pieces and check to see if there is enough information to solve it. Keep checking them and solving pieces that have info until you finish. If it can't be solved this way then a human can't solve it either.
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can we actually solve sudoku in reasonable time using this algorithm? I have built a program myself using this algorithm and as soon as I did so it struck me that if we start with a sudoku that has got no solutions e.g. 1,1,......... we will have to try out ALL(!) of the 9^79 combinations to be sure that it really is unsolvable. Therefore, I believe on average will take ages for the offered algorithm to solve a problem. Please correct me if I am wrong.
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@reitube2 you can download...use firefox, and get an add on called video download helper..works a treat....very easy to use
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Someone steals his Mars Bar at 15:08
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HOW DO ALGORITHM?
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man he's good!
i have been watching Richard's video for a whole day.
wish i can download it instead of on youtube...



"I won't stick it in if it's not legal!"
Good idea!
spitball123 1 year ago 17
Richard discusses most complex function in this program, which is hasSolution, at 34:19 // hasSolution does most solving work, so solution can be later displayed.
extension1337 3 years ago 6