TAOCP 7.2.2.1 Exercise 78

Solution to TAOCP 7.2.2.1 Exercise 78.

Section 7.2.2.1: Dancing Links

Exercise 78. [16] [16] Show that it's quite easy to pack the 27 mathematicians' names of Fig. 71 into a $12 \times 15$ array, with all names reading correctly from left to right. (Of course that would be a terrible word search puzzle.)

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