Charlie Ellis, a program manager at Microsoft, has an interesting article which uses solving a Sudoku puzzle as a way to teach how you can use Excel to solve extremely complex puzzles using iterative calculations. Interesting concept, and I look forward to using it on one of my favorite games ever.
Web: Building a Basic, Understandable Sudoku Solver Using Excel Iterative Calculation (by Charlie Ellis from Excel on MSDN Blogs)
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Tags: Excel, Sudoku, iterative calculations, Microsoft Excel