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My ID and Sig come from a fake ad in a magazine: "Become a Quantum Mechanic!..." I adopted this as my alter ego's vocation (as I know just enough physics to embarass myself in good company).
Sudoku and Quantum::Superpositions
I find it mildly entertaining (and a lot of work). I'd rather know how to solve it programmatically, and then smirk when they get stuck.
I've seen some solvers out there, and at least one uses Quantum::Superpositions. But it was only used as a bit vector, and didn't do anything dramatically different from any other solution.
So I'm picking up the gauntlet, and working out whether Q::S can really be useful here or not. For instance, I'd like to develop the constraints and starting state in Q::S, and say "go", and watch it churn.
For the 9x9 version, I recall that there are 324 constraints to be satisfied. Given Q::S's recursive nature, that could be quite a CPU killer...if I can figure out how to code it.
Now to pull out the debugger, and see what I can do with any and all.
because that's exactly how much difference there is. :-)
--Larry Wall in <10209@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
