Working From Home

I am going to work from home again today and model another database.
I collected all the stats I needed and stored them on disc so I don't need the network.

It is going to be 71 degees and sunny today.

I got my suit dry cleaned for less than $8. I don't know if that is a good price, but it seems like a good price to me. The dry cleaners is just around the corner.

In order to do the Sudoku theory research, I really need to do some advanced programming in Micorsoft Excel. I could get by without it, but it would be a ton of work. The issue is this - how many unique sudoku puzzlke solutions are there. When I say unique, I mean truly unique. For example, if you take any puzzle solution, and in every cell, you swap the 1 digit for the 9, you have what looks like a new puzzle, but it is the same underlying pattern. By swapping or mapping the 9 digits differently, you can create over 3.5 million puzzles that are essentially the same. If you cosider rotating the puzzle and reflecting the puzzle accross an axis, this increases to 28 milllion puzzles that are essentially all the same puzzle. It is my guess that there are a small set of truly unique solutions as a set. If the number of unique patterns is small enough, this can be leveraged and memorized - perhaps guiding the puzzler with a specific strategy if he can recognize the basic underlying pattern.

Sounds weird, and it is, but that's who I am.

I haven't been able to think like this for a long long time.