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[keith]

I think it would be good to have a thread that allows us to reveal a little about ourselves. Nothing particularly personal, but your thoughts about your Sudoku passion.

Possible items:

Age
Place
Vocation
How?
Why?

I have the feeling that most who frequent these forums are white males of a certain age who are mathematicians or programmers.

Am I correct?

[keith]

keith

Retired. Engineer.

Well, I spent my career writing simulation codes and managing high performance computing requirements for (then) the world's largest corporation.

When Sudoku first appeared, I was intrigued. But, I wondered how complex this 9x9 puzzle really was. So, I spent a lot of time studying the mathematics and theory of Sudoku before I really got interested.

I was lucky to be around in the early days, when concepts like Unique Rectangles were first being explored. I wrote some tutorials that were pretty popular.

My other passion is genealogy, which is also what I call an "infinite jigsaw puzzle". Like Sudoku, it can be as simple or as complex as you want it to be. Exercise for the mind, is my excuse for the hours spent.

I always solve with pencil and paper, though I do use software (Sudoku Susser) to check my posts and solutions.

Keith

[Marty R.]

I'm a retired accountant with nine years of computer (old mainframe) programing in between the accounting.

I'd never heard of the word "Sudoku" until I saw a puzzle in our local fish-wrapper in late 2005. I took to it immediately and joined here a couple of months later.

I'm strictly a pencil-and-paper solver and the only computer help I avail myself of is using Draw/Play sometimes to populate a grid.

[nataraj]