[chbot] Choc fish challenege 3

[Andre Renaud]

I'm very impressed Mike - it took mine approximately 15 hours to get the
15 queens solutions, and I wouldn't even bother starting it for 16.

Can anyone outperform these results?

On 31/08/11 22:28, Synco Reynders wrote:
> Oh... looks like I've lost my fish since my brute-force method took
> about 4 hours to calculate the solutions for 11 queens. Thinking it may
> also be my computer... since I'm sure it'd take more than 2min just to
> count upto 14772512.
> /s
> 
> On 31 August 2011 22:07, hamster <hamster at snap.net.nz
> <mailto:hamster at snap.net.nz>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi Andre,
> 
>     I can verify that and add a couple more...
> 
>     [hamster at linuxdev q3]$ time ./q 14
>     365596 solutions found at 14
> 
>     real    0m2.096s
>     user    0m2.069s
>     sys     0m0.006s
>     [hamster at linuxdev q3]$ time ./q 15
>     2279184 solutions found at 15
> 
>     real    0m13.189s
>     user    0m13.133s
>     sys     0m0.009s
>     [hamster at linuxdev q3]$ time ./q 16
>     14772512 solutions found at 16
> 
>     real    1m30.293s
>     user    1m30.002s
>     sys     0m0.042s