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:Hmm. Thanks for the info on the variants where you introduce a placeholder not-a-number symbol. I guess it cannot match anything and would serve to reduce complexity when someone wants to test what they think they may know about a partial solution?
:If I were playing with more digits then I guess it would allow me to reduce the problem to something I could work out in my head. --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] 03:00, 5 July 2012 (UTC)
:: Yes, anything not a digit (in this case) doesn't match anything. It's very helpful when your mind is a bit cloudy (like enjoying some down-time after an eighteen hour coding tear), or maybe you're dealing with a "bulls and cows" game variant with more than four digits. Also, kids like to use a NaN guess as they seem to prefer to deal with a smaller subset of logic. Well, ok, ok, so do I at times. I was playing a few games as I always check out the game after I make a change (or an improvement, ha!), and once, I just couldn't find a solution (I had zigged instead of zagged when coding a change), and the "cows" information was wrong. I had to ignore the cows and try only for the bulls. -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] 03:12, 5 July 2012 (UTC)
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