>
> > * After a recent determination of deals #24,795,893 and #53,687,601 as
> > unsolveable, the solveability of the first 100,000,000 deals have been
> > determined.
>
> Would you care to share the list of impossible/unsolveable deals?
I didn't make the run of 100,000,000 deals. Ryan Miller did it a few years back and provided a list of his intractable deals for me to check. I only know which of his intractables are unsolveable. The two deals above were the only hold-outs.
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> > * For the first 25,000,000 deals, I've been able to solve all but
> > three of the solveable deals in less than 60 moves.
>
> BTW, by "less than 60 moves", do you mean "59 or less" or
> do you mean "60 or less"?
>
59 moves or less. I just completed a recheck of the first 1,000,000 deals to verify this statement. I must admit that I don't recall doing it for the remaining deals in the first 25,000,000.
>
> Have you verified that all these solutions of your are minimal? What do
> you want to do further down the road?
>
Only a few of my solutions are minimal. Most only qualify as "fairly short". However, for a specific deal, I have a solver that can produce a very short solution, but consumes several minutes in the process.
I don't have any idea where to go from here. That's why I asked.
> I have indirect access to High Performance Computing (HPC) machines with
> 128 GB of RAM (which works reliably) and with 512 GB of RAM (which does not
> work very reliably), and can run my solvers (or solvers that are built
> from other supplied sources) there. Would that help you somehow?
>
Not at the moment. I don't have any projects remaining to resolve.
Regards, Danny A. Jones
Received on Tue Oct 02 2012 - 14:10:12 IST