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Title |
Difficulty |
Topic |
| 37 |
Sudoku Solver |
Hard |
Hash Table; Backtracking |
Description
Write a program to solve a Sudoku puzzle by filling the empty cells.
A sudoku solution must satisfy all of the following rules:
- Each of the digits
1-9 must occur exactly once in each row.
- Each of the digits
1-9 must occur exactly once in each column.
- Each of the the digits
1-9 must occur exactly once in each of the 9 3x3 sub-boxes of the grid.
Empty cells are indicated by the character '.'.

A sudoku puzzle…

…and its solution numbers marked in red.
Note:
- The given board contain only digits
1-9 and the character '.'.
- You may assume that the given Sudoku puzzle will have a single unique solution.
- The given board size is always
9x9.
Backtracking
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class { public void solveSudoku(char[][] board) { if(board == null || board.length == 0 || board[0] == null || board[0].length == 0) return; solve(board); } public boolean solve(char[][] board) { for(int i=0; i<board.length; i++) { for(int j=0; j<board[0].length; j++) { if(board[i][j] == '.') { for(char c='1'; c<='9'; c++) { if(isValid(board, i, j, c)) { board[i][j] = c; if(solve(board)) return true; board[i][j] = '.'; } } return false; } } } return true; } public boolean isValid(char[][] board, int row, int col, char c) { for(int i=0; i<9; i++) { if(board[row][i] != '.' && board[row][i] == c) return false; if(board[i][col] != '.' && board[i][col] == c) return false; if(board[3 * (row / 3) + i / 3][3 * (col / 3) + i % 3] != '.' && board[3 * (row / 3) + i / 3][3 * (col / 3) + i % 3] == c) return false; } return true; } }
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时间复杂度为$$O(9^M)$$,$$M$$表示空格的个数。
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