Re: [MLUG] N-Queens Problem Solver

["Jonathan King" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 6:53 AM, Stephen Montgomery-Smith
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> > Before i make a real effort I want to be sure because it kinda looks like
> > maybe you copied my "N" and then typed "n" when you meant "N".
> >
> > If by "student," you meant "grad student," then maybe I shouldn't even
> try, but if you meant high school student, then I probably have some hope of
> succeeding.
>
>  I was an undergraduate.  But it did take me about six months to figure it
> out.

Wow. And he posts the thing on a Friday evening without telling us
this, probably just to trying to get us to bite. That was not very
nice. Let's do the math: took Stephen 6 months to do as a strapping 19
year old maths major in his calculational prime. Mike and I are
doddering psychologists in our 40s who have kids and stuff. I estimate
this could take me, personally, til the twelfth of never.

jking

ps--is there any clever way to use facts about things like
hypergeometric series here or am I veering off the true path?



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