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Solving KenKen puzzles — by not playing
2010
Pharmaceutical Programming
Solving Kenken puzzles requires more than making sure that numbers are used only once in a row and column of a matrix. Unlike Sudoku puzzles that can use any symbol and have sub-matrices, Kenken puzzles require actual integers and have contiguous cells, called cages. And, unlike a sub-matrix that contains a unique collection of numbers or symbols, Kenken puzzles have cages that must contain natural numbers representing a total as a function of its assigned arithmetic operation. For example,
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