Pentominoku for Laylalogic-masters.de 34 pointsdaoudc2 years ago4 commentsSaveHideCopy link On HNComments−irtefa2y"As we were expecting our fourth child, Layla, it felt like I had come full circle since my first sudoku escapade, and decided to dedicate the puzzle to her." - I love this!−qsort2yIn case anybody's wondering what Prolog is for. There you go.−daoudcOP2yHa, well I used to teach Prolog and yes, you could solve it using Prolog but I think it would be horribly slow without Knuth's magic algorithm.−qsort2yI think in this specific case the size is small enough that you could handle it -- 9! ~= 360,000.But yeah, your point is well taken. On the logic programming side, ASP is probably a better fit.
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"As we were expecting our fourth child, Layla, it felt like I had come full circle since my first sudoku escapade, and decided to dedicate the puzzle to her." - I love this!
In case anybody's wondering what Prolog is for. There you go.
Ha, well I used to teach Prolog and yes, you could solve it using Prolog but I think it would be horribly slow without Knuth's magic algorithm.
I think in this specific case the size is small enough that you could handle it -- 9! ~= 360,000.
But yeah, your point is well taken. On the logic programming side, ASP is probably a better fit.