While I have worked on programs to infer numerical solutions to ordinary differential equations of a single variable, I have yet to complete any work involving partial differential equations. These are somewhat more complex, as the derivat…

In a recent programming competition, I wrote a program to execute a breadth first search through a state space of 9-character strings, in which each character was a distinct digit 1-9. The goal was, given a 3 by 3 matrix of digits 1-9, per…