6. There is a strong connection between Simplify and Encoding because Simplify done on the “encoding bits” and might change the encoding accordingly.
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8. Ben-Gurion University Solver (http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~benr/nonograms/)BEE is faster than the dedicated solvers on the hard puzzles. Selected human puzzles 5,000 random 30x30 puzzles