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Past exam of the year 1 of the computer science course of the University of Oxford / 2017 / Functional programming, design and analysis of algorithms / 3 / d / Solution by

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Enumerate assignments and retain exactly the valid completions:

solve :: Grid -> [Grid]
solve = filter complete . expand . choices

With

x

blank cells and all other entries fixed, the unpruned Cartesian product has $9^{x}$ candidate grids. Testing complete enforces every row, column and box condition. This is the size of the full candidate search; lazy evaluation can stop earlier if the caller demands only an initial portion of the solution list.

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