POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Sudoku : Re: Sudoku Server Time
6 Sep 2024 17:19:15 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Sudoku  
From: Jim Henderson
Date: 26 Jan 2009 15:05:47
Message: <497e179b$1@news.povray.org>
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:56:21 -0500, Warp wrote:

> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>> I got two different solutions.
> 
>   Then it sounds like that sudoku was broken. (How can they, for
>   example,
> give the solution to it if it has more than one?)

No, it wasn't broken.

How many different possible solutions are there for filling in a Sudoku 
if no spaces are filled in?  Now fill in 6 of the spaces.  How many 
unique solutions result in numbers in those pre-filled conditions?

Logically, it *has* to be possible to come up with multiple solutions, 
otherwise there would only be *one* way to fill in the boxes to start 
with.

Jim


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