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Today we’re going to encode state of International Checkers game in as little as possible. There are two players, each of them has at most 20 pieces, some are men, some are kings. The board is 10 by 10 big (so has 100 fields in total). First solution we may have is to encode position … Continue reading Encoding Checkers in three longs
This is the ninth part of the Chatterbox series. For your convenience you can find other parts in the table of contents in Part 1 – Origins Until now we focused on how to integrate text communication. We can share some media the same way, namely via providing links to images or videos. We can … Continue reading Chatterbox Part 9 — Calling Facebook using GSM
This is the seventieth ninth part of the ILP series. For your convenience you can find other parts in the table of contents in Part 1 – Boolean algebra Today we are going to explore constraints and comparisons a little more. We already know how to compare integers, we sort of know how to do … Continue reading ILP Part 79 — Complex constraints and comparisons
This is the seventieth eighth part of the ILP series. For your convenience you can find other parts in the table of contents in Part 1 – Boolean algebra Today we are going to solve the Tic-Tac-Toe riddle. We have a board with some circles and crosses. We need to fill it with more of … Continue reading ILP Part 78 — Tic-Tac-Toe
This is the seventieth seventh part of the ILP series. For your convenience you can find other parts in the table of contents in Part 1 – Boolean algebra Today we’re going to solve Cc kwadrat or Stained glass. The idea is: we have a 3×3 board and we need to put one of two … Continue reading ILP Part 77 — Stained glass