in reply to Re: Solving the Eight Queens problem
in thread Solving the Eight Queens problem

It is very interesting, and extremely clever.

However, I was thinking more along the lines of a solution yielding all possible answers in a short amount of time.


@ARGV=split//,"/:L"; map{print substr crypt($_,ord pop),2,3}qw"PerlyouC READPIPE provides"

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Re^3: Solving the Eight Queens problem
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Dec 26, 2005 at 18:23 UTC

    If you follow the thread, it gives several interations of a non-regex solution that is really quite fast.


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