2012-01-24

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Numberphile

17 is the minimum number of clues required to give a unique sudoku solution - but how did mathematicians prove this?

Featuring James Grime.

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Dr James Grime discusses a recent paper which cracked the problem. The paper being discussed by McGuire and others is at http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.0749

James Grime's website is at http://singingbanana.com/

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