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The 24 puzzle is an arithmetical puzzle in which the objective is to find a way to manipulate four integers so that the end result is 24. For example, for the numbers 4, 7, 8, 8, a possible solution is . The problem has been played as a card game in Shanghai since the 1960s, [ 1] using playing cards. It has been known by other names, including ...
The Mersenne Twister is a general-purpose pseudorandom number generator (PRNG) developed in 1997 by Makoto Matsumoto (松本 眞) and Takuji Nishimura (西村 拓士). [ 1][ 2] Its name derives from the choice of a Mersenne prime as its period length. The Mersenne Twister was designed specifically to rectify most of the flaws found in older PRNGs.
FreeCell. FreeCell is a solitaire card game played using the standard 52-card deck. It is fundamentally different from most solitaire games in that very few deals are unsolvable, [ 1] and all cards are dealt face-up from the beginning of the game. [ 2] Although software implementations vary, most versions label the hands with a number (derived ...
Sudoku solving algorithms. A typical Sudoku puzzle. A standard Sudoku contains 81 cells, in a 9×9 grid, and has 9 boxes, each box being the intersection of the first, middle, or last 3 rows, and the first, middle, or last 3 columns. Each cell may contain a number from one to nine, and each number can only occur once in each row, column, and box.
Social golfer problem. In discrete mathematics, the social golfer problem ( SGP) is a combinatorial-design problem derived from a question posted in the usenet newsgroup sci.op-research in May 1998. [1] The problem is as follows: 32 golfers play golf once a week in groups of 4. Schedule these golfers to play for as many weeks as possible ...
Given that the ratio of their areas is π / 4 , the value of π can be approximated using a Monte Carlo method: [1] Draw a square, then inscribe a quadrant within it; Uniformly scatter a given number of points over the square; Count the number of points inside the quadrant, i.e. having a distance from the origin of less than 1
According to company telemetry FreeCell was the seventh most-used Windows program, ahead of Word and Microsoft Excel. [3] The original Microsoft FreeCell package supports 32,000 numbered deals, generated by a 15-bit, pseudorandom-number seed. These deals are known as the "Microsoft 32,000", [4] and all but one of them have been completed. [6]
Solver is a linear programming / analysis tool for Excel that was included with Excel 2004 as an add-in, but dropped from Excel 2008 since it required Visual Basic for Applications (VBA).