Having a list of integers how would I find the biggest square area that can fit in the columns? With clojure.logic or preferrably with https://github.com/aengelberg/loco. I couldn’t find an example or a tutorial that help me with this kind of problem. Examples:
1234321 321 423
0 0
*** 0 0 0
0***0 ** **0
00***00 **0 **0
= 3 = 2 = 2
it seems like the kind of think you might be able to find a formula for
I think with logic programming or some kind of sat solver you are going to have trouble, because both of those tend to be good answering "does a solution to this exist" and less so at solving "find me the solution with property x"
actually, I think you can put that in terms of does X exist: "Does X exist where X is a number that fits in row 0, and row 0 + X, and X+1 doesn't fit in row 0 + X + 1"
the biggest result or smallest result, is a constraint relative to all the other answers, which means you have to compute all the other possible answers
Ok, I think that helps. I’ll ponder on it. Thanks!