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Solving Sudoku With dpkg

Posted by timothy on from the after-all-it's-there dept.

Reader Otter points out in his journal a very neat use for the logic contained in Debian's package dependency resolver: solving sudoku puzzles. To me at least, this is much more interesting than the sudoku puzzles themselves. Update: 08/24 02:51 GMT by T : Hackaday just ran a story that might tickle the same parts of your brain on a game played entirely with MySQL database queries.

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  1. Re:Cheat code for even Sudoku?? by pizzach · · Score: 5, Funny

    Because cheats impress babes. left-right-left-right-a-b-start! left-right-left-right-a-b-start! I think I feel tingley.

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  2. Re:Cheat code for even Sudoku?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Because cheats impress babes. left-right-left-right-a-b-start! left-right-left-right-a-b-start! I think I feel tingley.

    Please hand in your geek card immediately.

  3. Re:Cheat code for even Sudoku?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I just feel sorry for geeks living in Soviet Russia. I've heard horror stories that suggest that over there, the geek cards hand in the geeks. Can you imagine the betrayal of your geek card giving you up like that?

  4. Make by michaelmalak · · Score: 4, Funny

    Probably also could be done using Make, which is really an expert system in disguise. Ant-heads won't know what I'm talking about. (Mod to +5 Flamebait.)

  5. Re:Cheat code for even Sudoku?? by Bozzio · · Score: 4, Funny

    WRONG!

    You inverted the A and B.

    Yes! That's another geek card today. Only 2 more until my geek upgrade.

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