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Tiling a square
I wondered if there was a way to automate the process of finding a way to tile a tile into a square.
The idea is to represent the tile with a matrix of 0s for blank space and 1s for filled spaces ...
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How do we solve Eight Queens variation using primes?
Using a $p_n $x $p_n$ matrix, how can we solve the Eight queens puzzle to find a prime in every row and column?
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