Børge wrote:
@Ed & Matt, sometime next week I will answer all your questions and some of your comments.
I hope this post answers all open questions, and that I have not forgotten any.
udosuk wrote:
I guess the usage of "solvers" to replace "techniques" is from JSudoku?
Correct!
Ed wrote:
I never studied grammar at school and have always relied on what sounds right.
That’s what most people do in their native tongue, and probably a reason why in many countries teachers are complaining about (young) people having insufficient skills in their native language.
I bet that quite a number of native English speaking people say "He is taller than me." Instead of the grammatically correct "He is taller than I (am)."
I have learned that "than" either compares Subject Forms (I, He, She) or Object Forms (Me, Him, Her). Looked up a lengthy discussion on this topic in an English grammar forum a couple of days ago.
What few foreigners know is that in Norwegian verbs are not inflected for person, only for tense. I.e. in Norwegian there is no such ting as:
I am
You are
He/She/It is
We are
You are
They are
In Norwegian it is:
I / you / he / she / it / we / you / they are (or am or is).
I do not know which of the three English forms correspond to the Norwegian one "er".
This causes the first main problem for Norwegian children when learning foreign languages.
You can read more about this topic here:
http://www.hum.uit.no/a/abels/ENG_1010/Seminar_X.pdf (Norwegian compared with English and French.)
Ed wrote:
I played around a little bit with scoring your puzzles to try and get some correlation with your difficulty levels.
All the thumb rules I go by when creating puzzles are listed in the first three posts in "Børge’s Corner".
Ed wrote:
BTW2 - what is the "Borge's Corner" solver sequence for SS
Below the unofficial "Borge's Corner" solver sequence for SS. It is unofficial since I have to verify for which Sudoku types and variants all the "... Cage ...", "... Killer ..." and "45 Rule ..." techniques/solvers are used.
Perhaps you can enlighten me.HERE you can find the corresponding .solveroptions file.
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