When I first discovered Sudoku puzzles I looked at the boxes and the numbers and said “well, this MUST have a mathematical solution.” I mean, come on, it’s 9 rows, 9 boxes, 9 sets, each with a solution set of numbers 1-9. It seemed perfectly ordered to me and seemed like a mathematical solution was obvious.
So, I started doing some research and it turns out that all the brilliant-est math minds steadfastly held that there was NO mathematical solution for Sudoku. Until today.
I’m not going to pretend that I understand the math in the actual paper but I do understand this:
What Crook has done … is more or less systematized what the average mind does and made it into some sort of computer algorithm – which is a step-by-step procedure.
This means that you can now solve Sudoku puzzles using a computer program. I’ve always maintained that we just need more programs that help us solve all of life’s puzzles.
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So the computer program solves it the way we do… While that’s great for sudoku, a 9X9 grid of numbers, thats not exactly a solution in polynomial time… There still exists no mathematically formulaic way (in any universal sense) to solve the puzzle…
completely bakwaas . every one knows it