Sudokos solved in 500 miliseconds, or it's free

[donutjay]

So, I finally finished my Sudoko solver. I tried valiently to write it in Perl, but recursion, pointers, and strangely scoped variable defeated me. I spent an hour converting it to Java, and now it solves any puzzle I throw at it in less than a second (except for that one weird one that took 44 seconds

Comments

[ka3ytl]

This is where I'm going "were you there for that conversation?"

"That conversation" was the one where we were "discussing" the fact that n3nbb was also talking about writing a program to solve them.

[donutjay]

I don't think so... I started working on this last weekend, before we were in Pittsburgh.

[susangc7]

No, that was later in the evening, after they'd left.

My officemate is also talking about writing a program to solve Sudoku puzzles. I think it's a programmer thing.

[freeptop]

Count me in for wanting to see the code :)