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Pat44113today at 3:46 PM1 replyview on HN

I asked Claude to solve the pentominoes puzzle made famous by Arthur C. Clarke. It struggled mightily until I told it how I'd solved the problem using 64 bit unsigned integers to represent the board and pieces. Then, it created a C# program that solved the problem very quickly. However, in the 20x3 case it found four solutions when there are only two. Turns out it had incorrectly mapped one of the pentominoes. Sort of a silly mistake; the sort a human might make.


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phoronixrlytoday at 3:49 PM

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