{"id":177,"date":"2013-12-22T06:30:31","date_gmt":"2013-12-22T01:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jollymaths.com\/blog\/?p=177"},"modified":"2013-12-22T06:31:23","modified_gmt":"2013-12-22T01:01:23","slug":"9x54-ramanujan-sudoku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jollymaths.com\/blog\/9x54-ramanujan-sudoku\/","title":{"rendered":"9&#215;54 Ramanujan sudoku"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is a variation of the popular puzzle <a title=\"Wiki Sudoku\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sudoku\" target=\"_blank\">Sudoku<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_178\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-178\" style=\"width: 604px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jollymaths.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/RamanujanSudoku_9x54.jpg\" class=\"gallery_colorbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-178\" alt=\"Ramanujan Sudoku 9x54\" src=\"http:\/\/jollymaths.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/RamanujanSudoku_9x54-1024x120.jpg\"  width=\"604\" height=\"70\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jollymaths.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/RamanujanSudoku_9x54-1024x120.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jollymaths.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/RamanujanSudoku_9x54-300x35.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jollymaths.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/RamanujanSudoku_9x54.jpg 1242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-178\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ramanujan Sudoku 9&#215;54<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">The word &#8220;RAMANUJAN&#8221; occupied 89 cells and numbers 1 to 9 are used 9 times each and the balance filled with 1 to 8. 8 along with the <a title=\"properties of Sudoku\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sudoku#Mathematics_of_Sudoku\" target=\"_blank\">properties of NORMAL SUDOKU<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">1) The entire word &#8220;RAMANUJAN&#8221; is first written using 119 squares (or cells).<br \/>\n2) Numbers 1 to 9 are filled inside each of these letters.<br \/>\n3) In total, the numbers 1 to 9 are written 13 times and the remaining cells are filled with 1 and 2.<br \/>\n4) We then take each Sudoku of 9 x 9 individually and fill them. The total number of squares that are covered for the word\/letter are filled 1 to 9, the adjacent Sudoku (in the right) will commence with the numbers next to the last with 1 to 9 till it fills in the alphabet in that 9 x 9 Sudoku, and the next word\/letter will start with the filled number.<br \/>\nFor example, the first sudoku contains 20 squares, that are filled with 1 to 9 two times and the balance with 1 &amp; 2. Hence the next Sudoku will commence with 3 to 9, 1 to 9, and so on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a variation of the popular puzzle Sudoku. The word &#8220;RAMANUJAN&#8221; occupied 89 cells and numbers 1 to 9 are used 9 times each and the balance filled with 1 to 8. 8 along with the properties of NORMAL SUDOKU. 1) The entire word &#8220;RAMANUJAN&#8221; is first written using 119 squares (or cells). 2) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jollymaths.com\/blog\/9x54-ramanujan-sudoku\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">9&#215;54 Ramanujan sudoku<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,11,14,15],"tags":[21,22,17],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recreational-math","category-recreational-mathematics","category-srinivasa-ramanujan","category-sudoku","category-variant","tag-srinivasa-ramanujan","tag-sudoku","tag-variant-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jollymaths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jollymaths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jollymaths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jollymaths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jollymaths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jollymaths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181,"href":"https:\/\/jollymaths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions\/181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jollymaths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jollymaths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jollymaths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}