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On Thursday, March 28, 2013 3:06:02 PM UTC+10:30, Dave Angel wrote:
> On 03/27/2013 11:00 PM, Eric Parry wrote:
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> > On Wednesday, March 27, 2013 6:28:01 PM UTC+10:30, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote:
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> >>
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>       <SNIP the double-spaced garbage that GoogleGroups put in - see 
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> http://wiki.python.org/moin/GoogleGroupsPython >
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> > Thank you for your explanation.
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> > I noticed that in this particular puzzle when it ran out of candidates in a particular cycle, it then changed the last entry to the next one in line in the previous cycle. But I cannot find any code to do this.
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> > I was hoping to understand the logic so that I could re-write it in VBA for excel which would enable any puzzle to be entered directly.
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> > Your comments are a big help especially the double negative aspect.
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> >
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> Are you familiar with recursion?  Notice the last line in the function 
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> r() calls the function r() inside a for loop.
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> So when r() returns, you're back inside the next level up of the 
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> function, and doing a "backtrack."
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> When the function succeeds, it will be many levels of recursion deep. 
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> For example, if the original pattern had 30 nonzero items in it, or 51 
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> zeroes, you'll be 51 levels of recursion when you discover a solution.
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> If you don't already understand recursion at all, then say so, and one 
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> or more of us will try to explain it in more depth.
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> -- 
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> DaveA

Thank you for that explanation.
No, I do not understand recursion. It is missing from my Python manual. I would be pleased to receive further explanation from anyone.
Eric.

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Sudoku Eric Parry <joan4eric@gmail.com> - 2013-03-26 22:44 -0700
  Re: Sudoku Ulrich Eckhardt <ulrich.eckhardt@dominolaser.com> - 2013-03-27 08:58 +0100
    Re: Sudoku Eric Parry <joan4eric@gmail.com> - 2013-03-27 20:00 -0700
      Re: Sudoku Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-03-28 00:36 -0400
        Re: Sudoku Eric Parry <joan4eric@gmail.com> - 2013-03-28 15:11 -0700
          Re: Sudoku Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-03-28 19:28 -0400
            Re: Sudoku Eric Parry <joan4eric@gmail.com> - 2013-03-28 22:07 -0700
            Re: Sudoku Eric Parry <joan4eric@gmail.com> - 2013-03-28 22:07 -0700
          Re: Sudoku Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-03-29 09:45 +1100
            Re: Sudoku Eric Parry <joan4eric@gmail.com> - 2013-03-29 14:47 -0700
              Re: Sudoku Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-03-29 18:11 -0400
                Re: Sudoku Eric Parry <joan4eric@gmail.com> - 2013-03-30 15:06 -0700
                Re: Sudoku Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-03-30 19:15 -0400
                Re: Sudoku Eric Parry <joan4eric@gmail.com> - 2013-03-31 15:03 -0700
                Re: Sudoku Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-03-31 18:34 -0400
                Re: Sudoku Arnaud Delobelle <arnodel@gmail.com> - 2013-03-31 23:59 +0100
                Re: Sudoku Eric Parry <joan4eric@gmail.com> - 2013-03-31 15:03 -0700
                Re: Sudoku Eric Parry <joan4eric@gmail.com> - 2013-03-31 15:27 -0700
                Re: Sudoku Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-04-01 09:35 +1100
                Re: Sudoku Eric Parry <joan4eric@gmail.com> - 2013-03-31 20:58 -0700
                Re: Sudoku Eric Parry <joan4eric@gmail.com> - 2013-03-31 15:27 -0700
                Re: Sudoku Eric Parry <joan4eric@gmail.com> - 2013-03-30 15:06 -0700
            Re: Sudoku Eric Parry <joan4eric@gmail.com> - 2013-03-29 14:47 -0700
        Re: Sudoku Eric Parry <joan4eric@gmail.com> - 2013-03-28 15:11 -0700
  Re: Sudoku Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@free.fr> - 2013-03-27 09:49 +0100
  Re: Sudoku Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-03-27 05:38 -0400
  Re: Sudoku Eric Parry <joan4eric@gmail.com> - 2013-03-27 19:49 -0700

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