In a message dated 12/13/01 7:55:53 PM Pacific Standard Time,
tomh_at_po.crl.go.jp writes:
> On Thu, 13 Dec 2001 WKRfresno_at_aol.com wrote:
>
> > ... a user asked recently about MS' not allowing a homecell card to be
> > brought back into play. That's a limit that I wouldn't want to
> > change. But I would be very interested to learn whether lifting that
> > restriction would make solvable 11982 and others.
>
> I checked up to 20,000,000. Here are the ones that are unsolvable with 4
> freecells, but solvable in the above case (11982 is still not). All of
> these are solvable with 5 freecells, of course; the home -> tableau move
> is like a very constrained version of having 5 freecells.
Holy Crap! What are you using for a computer, NASA's Space Shuttle
command/control network? My speculative question was barely three hours old.
In that time you tested 20m and put together a comprehensive reply. At its
very fastest before I took it apart, my solver did just over 1m deals/hr. at
733 mHz. You must have some setup there!
Bill Raymond
Received on Thu Dec 13 2001 - 22:01:48 IST