Author: Stan Eisenstat
Subject: Re: [Cs223] 5x5, no soln
Date: Sunday, 19 Apr 2020, 08:41:06

    > Message Posted By: Unknown
    ...
    > About how long should our code take to go through a 5*5 grid with no
    > solution?

If the letters are distinct there are 25!/2 ~ 8 x 10^24
different positions that it must examine.  Thus it will
run out of memory long before it finishes.

--Stan-