Skip to content
New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Columnar Solver unable to solve, reason unknown #520

Open
Agilus opened this issue Apr 28, 2024 · 0 comments
Open

Columnar Solver unable to solve, reason unknown #520

Agilus opened this issue Apr 28, 2024 · 0 comments
Assignees

Comments

@Agilus
Copy link
Collaborator

Agilus commented Apr 28, 2024

I decided to challenge my students today by providing MORE information than I needed to, and using fewer columns than I think they would expect me to. The surprising result is that the Complete Columnar solver is unable to solve this one. I really don't know why. Is it because my crib is longer than the number of columns?

Quote: The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
Columns: 4
Ordering: 8308 (Randomly generated)
Crib: FUSING

  • It tries 4 columns first and outputs: Crib not found, rule out an encoding of 4 columns. Then it proceeds to try 6 and 8 columns, doesn't find the crib there either for obvious reasons, and then gives up.
  • While writing up this issue, I did try changing the ordering many (>10) times, and the issue persisted regardless of the ordering I used, including if I use the natural order of 1234.
Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment
Projects
None yet
Development

No branches or pull requests

3 participants