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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 Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Jesus Christ. If you're going to mention the greatest cheat code ever, get it right:
    Up-Up-Down-Down-Left-Right-Left-Right-B-A-(Select)-(Start)

    Amateur.

  2. I Disagree and I Agree by Nymz · · Score: 5, Informative

    Sudoku doesn't have clever logic and elegant methods.

    Check out the various strategies listed on this Sudoku Solver.

    Don't mod me down if you disagree. If you disagree, consider writing a retort instead.

    You must be new here. Only posters that take the time to back up conclusions with reasoned responses are moderated down. Conversely, those that write short, unsupported attacks are moderated up... because in reality most people can only be trusted with 2 tags - I agree or I disagree.