From Sudopedia, the free Sudoku reference guide
User:Dpbobelisk
From Sudopedia
David P Bird: Retired, Mainly Harmless
- Residence: Kettering, England
- Impediments: Sense of humour badly warped.
- Hobbies: Odd dates: resting up. Even dates: relaxing.
- Strengths: Non-mathematician
- Weaknesses: Overwhelming Modesty
- Loves: Puns, the joy of sets.
- Hates: Racists, Scotsmen, Nonsensical Sudoku Terminology, TLAs (Three letter acronyms).
I am into Sudoku for the challenge of solving a logic problem, not for another form of word-search pattern hunting. If I bifurcate when I think ahead, I don't worry. I therefore take a very different view on what makes a good method than most people. I consider a systematic search of all the non-branching inference chains, to be just as bifurcative as any of my restricted search methods! (But respect man. Each to his own.)
I seem to be in the minority who use spreadsheets when solving problems. Mine looks after the housekeeping and trivial methods and allows me to highlight cells according to contents. My preferred methods are therefore biased towards this way of working, and to my knowledge, can't be handled by most solvers.
Contact Details
I'm registered with the Programmers' Forum: through which I can be messaged.
