PM of Singapore releases Sudoku solver as open source

[Recursion]

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B2G2LjIu7WbdfjhaUmVzc1lCR2hUdk5fZllCOHdtbFItbU5qYzdqZGVxdmlnRkJyYVQ4VU0&usp=sharing&usp=sharing&urp=https://drive.google.com/folderview?id%3D0B2G2LjIu7W#list

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9485237

So, those of you who don't program:

This is a simple but non-trivial program. You can actually tell a lot of another person based on their solution to a problem like this. Lee is pretty damn smart. Some of those optimizations are actually pretty ridiculously clever.

[whatthehey]

1. Clever, but useless

Isn't the point of Sudoku working it out yourself?

Now a DE-solver may be very useful if it had a large enough database of human solution timing. For example "give me a completely original sudoku frame that we can reliably project only 10% could solve in <10 minutes" would be valuable. But just solving a set puzzle? Interesting coding and logic challenge for the writer, but no more.

[msongs]

2. since he is the virtual dictator of singapore, he has lots of time to do this sort of thing nt

[Blue_Tires]

3. Sudoku solver? Why?

Who is so lazy to make some program solve puzzles for them??