We suggest a new, unconventional, way for solving the YES/NO version of the Exact Cover problem by using the massive parallelism of light. The idea is to build a device which can ...
If a Steiner system S(4, 5, 17) exists, it would contain derived S(3, 4, 16) designs. By relying on a recent classification of the S(3, 4, 16), an exhaustive computer search for S...