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Czes'c', Miles!

13 Mar 05 05:50: Sender: Miles Maxted, Receiver: Aleksej R. Serdyukov, Data:

ARS>> Hmm, reminds me of "Japanese crosswords". And there are
ARS>> programs who solve them. ;)
ARS>> I don't dare to solve this on paper, or even in text editor
ARS>> - just tried and failed ;-) I think there are programs for
ARS>> them, just like for J.cs? To make an initially-null value
ARS>> gray, and to highlight errors... Hm, would it be fair?

MM> Japanese `crosswords' ?  With numbers instead of words ?

Hmm... "Japanese crossword" is one name for them, there is another ...
A J.c. looks this way:

     5   1 4 6
     2 3 5 4 2
1 2 5         |
6 2 1         |
  5 3         |
 16 1         |
     ----------

By solving it, you draw a picture. I'll write details, if needed.

MM> And this allowed us to move into N dimensions - the center square
MM> in 5 dimensions was 2,2,2,2,2 for example,  and was a winning move
MM> if you already had 2,1,2,2,2 and 2,2,2,3,2 !

Cool! Damn, this is the way I should have been trying to write tic-tac-toe
in QB some years ago. :)) I wouldn't fail then. ;)

=^..^= Good luck! +++
... Too old? It works. So shut up.
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