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Re: Puzzles on SQL/Oracle

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 16:07:00 -0800
Message-ID: <1167178014.755071@bubbleator.drizzle.com>


EscVector wrote:

> DA Morgan wrote:

>> EscVector wrote:
>>
>>> Anyone have pl/sql Sudoku puzzle generator?
>> Now that's nasty. ;-)
>>
>> There was an article in Scientific American earlier this year on Sudoku
>> indicating, IIRC, the minimum number of provided values to achieve a
>> solvable puzzle is 17.
>> --
>> Daniel A. Morgan
>> University of Washington
>> damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
>> (replace x with u to respond)
>> Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
>> www.psoug.org
> 
> I have all the known values downloaded.---
> http://people.csse.uwa.edu.au/gordon/sudokumin.php
> Could just plop them in a table.  I'm interested in converting the code
> from c++ to pl and was looking to see who might have done it.

Nice link. And I'm game to move anything from C++ to PL/SQL just for the fun of it. Not sure when I will get to it but it does confirm my recollection that 17 is the magic number.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
(replace x with u to respond)
Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
www.psoug.org
Received on Tue Dec 26 2006 - 18:07:00 CST

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