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yogen2021-12-11 12:49 pm
mathodical) wrote in yogen2021-12-11 12:49 pm
un: wj.moriarty
Separate to the online discourse, with less than two weeks to go before finals, I've been given permission to provide an extra credit assignment to salvage your grades.
- Normal sudoku rules apply.
- The centre square is a magic square (i.e. the sums of the numbers in each row, each column, and both main diagonals are the same and add up to 15)
- The diagonal lines also contain the digits 1 to 9.
- Knights move constraint: no two squares that are a knight's move apart can have the same digit.
If you can provide me with the solution to the puzzle before finals start it's an automatic pass from me if you are in my class, and if you are not in my class I'll see what I can do to bump you up to the passing grade.
Otherwise, I'm also offering remedial math classes for anyone who needs it for the math final after school hours in classroom 1-D.
- Normal sudoku rules apply.
- The centre square is a magic square (i.e. the sums of the numbers in each row, each column, and both main diagonals are the same and add up to 15)
- The diagonal lines also contain the digits 1 to 9.
- Knights move constraint: no two squares that are a knight's move apart can have the same digit.
If you can provide me with the solution to the puzzle before finals start it's an automatic pass from me if you are in my class, and if you are not in my class I'll see what I can do to bump you up to the passing grade.
Otherwise, I'm also offering remedial math classes for anyone who needs it for the math final after school hours in classroom 1-D.
un: r.nanase
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No guarantees that I will help you with this particular puzzle, but I can definitely get you up to speed on the basics of solving others.
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Okay, Moriarty-sensei! I'll be making use of your office hours!
i don't know what my keyboard was doing LMAO
Of course. I expect to be here for a while.
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Okay. Thanks for offering your help, I know I'm not your student...but I really could use the tutoring. Do you think any of us will have a Sudoku puzzle on our exams?
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Well, since this is an extra credit piece, I know my students are not going to get one on the final. I don't know about the other teachers.
[ that said! ]
If you need help with other topics on the final, I'm happy to help too.
un: h.inaba
[Not that she's failing anything, but this is honestly something, that's for sure.]
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Do you honestly think that someone who might potentially be failing math would even be able to figure out a complex sudoku?
1/2 i'm sorry
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You just need to apply some critical thinking and reasoning within the constraint of the rules - the same kind of logic and reasoning which helps in math.
That, and the puzzle deals with numbers. I could ask you instead to write
a paper on the binomial theorem or the Fibonacci Number sequence.
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[Logical things are her forte after all.]
And I don't know, a paper doesn't sound that bad. If only we had proper wifi, it'd be even easier than just having all those library books.
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[ he never had the internet, rip ]
You are welcome to write that paper if you are so inclined, Miss Inaba - I take extra credit in other forms, too.
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I don't need the extra credit; I already get high 90s on all my tests.
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[ no one has told liam about the wonders of the internet yet, he just, kind of figured out the pda on his own, rip. ]
Take it as a challenge, then.
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I don't take pointless challenges that don't benefit me in any way.
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[ genuine question tho. ]
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[While she does like turning her gears, doing it for the sake just simply doing it isn't satisfying enough for her.]
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s.akehoshi
i dont rly get the knights thing but how am i doin so far
also i dont wanna do this whole thing bc thats boring so this is for everyone else too!!!
the orange numbers are the ones that are no-go and the blue are the yes-go answers, if theyre right
if not then its back to the drawing board on those
man hokke woulda loved this he likes filling in spaces
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... But most of it is wrong.
I suggest you try solving the centre square first, since it has the most constraints. The knights move constraint means that if you have a digit in a certain square, if you drew an "L"-shape from that square, the square you ended up in cannot have that same number as well.
un: s. kuroneko
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