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by kybernetikos 3260 days ago
My JS implementation is http://dancing-links.herokuapp.com/

It includes a sudoku (also exact cover) and pentonimo solver.
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carapace 3260 days ago
This make me want to dig up a version I did in Python (for Sudoku as it happens.) The algorithm is a bad fit for Python because attributes are not pointers, but have a look at this:

http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~aassaf9/python/algorithm_x.html

> One day I decided to write Algorithm X in Python, and I came up with a very interesting variation on Dancing Links.

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kybernetikos 3260 days ago
That's really fun.
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