sudoku
(warning : half baked text, posted anyway)
Mixed threads of thought :
I was a bit verbose, I told my brother that ruby quizzes were the sudoku of Ruby developers.
Ruby and sudoku, then, via reddit, I came across this post by Eli about sudoku as SAT problems :
When sudoku became popular, I solved a few and quickly reached a conclusion that I don’t find these puzzles interesting. The solution process just felt too mechanic
He went on solving sudoku in a very interesting way…
The computer has to do the repetitive work. We all write programs to solve sudoku, but what about generating them ?
Is this number a prime ?
or
Please generate me the list of primes between 1 and 1000
Bad parallel, a is used by b.
Catalog of openings.
And I can’t find a link to an article detailing the usage of the first computers for generating logarithm tables…