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Trying this out for more or less the first time ever. Feels awkward...
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Dec 6, 2021
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Michael Doornbos
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← Been working on a magic square solver for a couple weeks now. My recursive backtracker in Python typically takes about 290 tries. Iterative approach on the PET I've got down under 100 tries (although it takes 15 minutes). Pretty happy with this. #commodore
Might have to start doing these in Assembly starting tomorrow if I want to keep using 8 Bit (around 1Mhz ish) computers. Part 1 of #AdventOfCode Day 7 took almost 6 hours. Good thing I started it in the middle of the night ;-) #commodore →
