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Sudoku is a number game based on a nine-by-nine grid. The object of the puzzle is to fill each column, row, and three-by-three square using the numbers one through nine only once...
Zakharevich’s program, featured on her website (www.people.harvard.edu/~zakharev), has two parts. The part that a user sees is a display of white boxes, controlled by a Common Gateway Interface (CGI) script, that organizes numbers in a sudoku grid. Another program, written in a computer language called Objective Categorical Abstract Machine Language (OCaml), does the actual number evaluation behind the scenes...
...user inputs numbers into the grid, and the program fills the remaining boxes with certain solutions. If a box might contain multiple number possibilities, then the program gives both possibilities, and it is up to the user to choose which one to input in the box before rerunning the program...
...number-evaluation program initially associates each space in the grid with every number possibility from 1 to 9. When the user inputs numbers, possibilities are removed depending on where the numbers are placed. The program then applies a series of rules that yield a grid of solutions, Zakharevich explained...
...said Cobb. “The neighborhood wanted the space saved and I really agreed with them… I felt that [dividing the buildings in two] was the only way to save the garden,” said Cobb.The interior of each building echoes the rational, grid-like lines of the exterior’s windows, thus sending out the clear message that CGIS is the home of well-established academic disciplines. Yet the interior is not devoid of human warmth. Like little oases in a desert of offices, intimate spaces with comfortable furniture are strategically scattered across each...