Sudoku is NP-complete (my colleague blogged (http://weblog.fortnow.com/2005/05/complexity-and-sudoku.html) a brief literature search about this some time ago). So if you have a fast algorithm that doesn't boil down to backtracking or trying all solutions in some way, email me.
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Date: 2009-03-06 04:33 am (UTC)