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Dev tools · May 11, 2015

NQueens problem solved using backtracking in Elixir lang

N-Queens solved using backtracking in Elixir. Contribute to tacticiankerala/N-Queens development by creating an account on GitHub.

NQueens problem solved using backtracking in Elixir lang launched on May 11, 2015 with 19 votes, #1,251 of 3,670 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 11 years on.

In plain words

This is an implementation of the N-Queens problem using backtracking algorithms written in the Elixir programming language. It is designed for developers interested in algorithm solutions and functional programming. The project is hosted on GitHub and allows contributions from other developers who want to study or improve the backtracking approach to solving the classic N-Queens chess puzzle.

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