Revista Integración, temas de matemáticas.
Vol. 24 No. 1 (2006): Revista Integración, temas de matemáticas
Research and Innovation Articles

La dificultad de jugar sudoku

J. Andrés Montoya
Escuela de Matemáticas, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia.

Published 2006-05-17

Keywords

  • máquinas de Turing,
  • clases de complejidad,
  • algoritmos eficientes,
  • costos computacionales

How to Cite

Montoya, J. A. (2006). La dificultad de jugar sudoku. Revista Integración, Temas De matemáticas, 24(1), 1–15. Retrieved from https://revistas.uis.edu.co/index.php/revistaintegracion/article/view/249

Abstract

 It is proven that the play sudoku is NP–complete, if the size of boards are considered to be n 2 for every natural number n. This partly explains why it is difficult to play sudoku.

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