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Ah, the Icelandic "Magic Math" #voting system! 
https://smarimccarthy.is/posts/2024-11-25-voting-system/ #MagicMath #Politics #IcelandicSystem #HackerNews #ngated
smarimccarthy.is · The Icelandic voting systemIt’s election season here in Iceland! The election is on Saturday, 30th of November, so next Saturday from when this is written.
Every time elections are upcoming, somebody inevitably asks me how the voting system here works, probably expecting a simple answer. So, here’s a stab at it.
Iceland uses a biproportional apportionment system, as do Norway, some cantons of Switzerland, some German regions, and a few other places. Such systems have a few general features:
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Passend dazu: heute vor einem Jahr habe ich mein erstes 4-Sterne-Sudoku nach dem Bewertungsmaßstab bei Logic Masters gelöst.
Das hat mich so sehr gefreut, dass ich mir das extra aufgeschrieben habe. Der Schwierigkeitsmaßstab bei Logic Masters wird von den Leuten nicht-linear angewendet, sodass mir vier oder gar fünf Sterne im Normalfall viel zu schwierig sind. Drei Sterne dagegen sind aber überwiegend gut machbar.
Auf den Tag genau vor zwei Jahren habe ich die Domain sudoku-tools.com registriert und meinen kleinen Killer Cage-/Region Sum Lines-Calculator installiert.
War tatsächlich nur für mich gedacht, wird aber von immer mehr Leuten genutzt (werbe- und trackingfrei).
Did some playing around with #GenAI's.
All of them could explain the German Whispers rule of variant #sudoku, but most of them would list 5 as a high digit.
All of them would accept 6-1-7-2-8-3-9-4 as a valid German Whispers line and 6-1-7-2-8-3-9-4-5 as a valid row in a sudoku.
None of them would accept that you could make a 8 cell long German Whisper line in a single row of a sudoku. All claimed that the theoretically longest line would be 6 cells long, but in practice only 4 cells.
A new version of Gauguin was just released with a feature I requested 
GitHubRelease 0.39.0 · meikpiep/gauguinAdded
Adds translation into Russian. (By @LinJesUxUs, @mxmka1000 and others)
Lets you fill a cell of a single cage by long pressing onto the cell. (Requested by @NormPlum)
Supports Android 15 via ...
Oh, the grand unveiling of Sudoku's "secrets"—because clearly, those mysterious 9x9 grids have been holding the key to the universe hostage. Thank you, #Chalkdust, for blessing us with the profound insights we've all been desperately missing while staring blankly at numbers for hours. 
https://chalkdustmagazine.com/features/unlocking-sudokus-secrets/ #Sudoku #Secrets #Number #Puzzles #Math #Humor #HackerNews #ngated
Chalkdust · Unlocking sudoku's secrets - ChalkdustSara Logsdon looks to graph theory and abstract algebra for help on the puzzle page
Here are some new sudoku variants I made:
