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[-] metallic_z3r0@infosec.pub 44 points 7 months ago
[-] cobwoms@lemmy.blahaj.zone 40 points 7 months ago
[-] akariii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 7 months ago

how serious of an answear do you want?

[-] obinice@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

THE NUMBERS, MASON

Hmm, quite puzzling.

[-] TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I was always lazy or too feeble minded to learn sudoku. But I recently finally learned minesweeper!

[-] Narrrz@kbin.social 9 points 7 months ago

inherently meaningless. intended only to deceive.

[-] smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 9 points 7 months ago

They are an indication that you can't do crossword puzzles.

[-] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

That the NSA has found you and the only way to escape their goons is to kill the head vampire

[-] biestander@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 7 months ago

Is this loss?

[-] SapphironZA@lemmings.world 6 points 7 months ago

This is some weird form of minesweeper you are playing

It's a math based puzzle commonly known as Sudoku, the rules are that each 3x3 square can only have numbers 1-9 with no repeats, same with each 9x1 row or column. A set of numbers are placed as a starter pattern (you can solve from blank but it's significantly more challenging) and you need to fill in the remaining numbers.

[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 15 points 7 months ago

It's a logic puzzle, no math is involved. It used numbers but those could be replaced with the letters 'A' through 'I' and function the same. Otherwise correct.

I started typing an angry comment about how math is logic and therefore sudoku is a math puzzle, but when I got to the second paragraph about graph theory I realized I was already losing the argument I was having with no one

[-] ActuallyRuben@actuallyruben.nl 2 points 7 months ago

Math is more than just numbers and arithmetic. There's even a Wikipedia page dedicated to the Mathematics of Sudoku.

[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 9 points 7 months ago

Mathematics can be used to study Sudoku puzzles to answer questions such as "How many filled Sudoku grids are there?", "What is the minimal number of clues in a valid puzzle?" and "In what ways can Sudoku grids be symmetric?" through the use of combinatorics and group theory.

That's completely different from a Sudoku puzzle itself or the process of solving one.

Sure, it's math in the way that everything can be described using math, but you wouldn't explain 'purple' as "the math of calculating what volume of blue to add to a given volume of red in order to reach the desired hue."

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 5 points 7 months ago

They go down with time. When they are 0, you can leave the train

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Me when the the when the number goes up my arm because I killed too many denizens

[-] Hundun@beehaw.org 4 points 7 months ago

Number is a simple abstraction: an exercise in conceptualizing a particular part of human experience, - the amounting of stuff and the relations of various amounts.

Its utility shines the most in the practice of measurement: determining, manipulating and comparing the amounts of stuff.

Numbers also useful as a stepping stone in a learning journey, allowing an individual mathematician to transition to using other, more powerful abstractions (like variables, polynomials, sets, functions, vectors, fields, etc.).

Numbers are magick!

[-] Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 7 months ago

There must be something funny in this, right? This has to be some kinda loss or something similar

[-] Toes@ani.social 1 points 7 months ago

It's just a really hard puzzle

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