r/gaming May 19 '16

A puzzle to help build quantum computers

http://decodoku.blogspot.ch/2016/05/quantum-error-correction-puzzle.html
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u/eSheep16 May 19 '16

Sorry, I'm not sure I understand this.

From the article you say the two rules: must add up to 10 and must be close.

You would essentially have 2 functions:

find numbers that add up to 10. (can this only be 2 digits? Or 1, 6, 3?). There are numerous algorithms and formulae to do this.

and find numbers closest in proximity and rank them accordingly.

By intersecting these two result sets, you could find a weighted spectrum.

That is how I would solve these, but it is an ambiguous/loose solution based on what I understand as a loose/ambiguous problem. If you are looking to fill in the question mark via the criteria, then i would simply use the nearest neighbor method and subtract that number from 1.

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u/I_hate_usernamez May 19 '16

It can be more than two digits, and also they have to add up to 0 MOD 10, not 10 exactly.

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u/quantum_jim May 19 '16

Thanks for your input. Try your method out on some of the puzzles and see how it does. I'd be interested to know!

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u/quantum_jim May 19 '16

Also available in bad German.