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Position

2006.8.1 -Department of Information and Systems Engineering, Faculty of Information Engineering, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan



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Research and Development

In the area of artificial intelligence, which aims to let computers imitate or excel the human thinking, I have been studying several topics related games or puzzles and developed several computer programs.

My recent topics are:
     Tsuitate-Shogi (Screen Shogi: variant of Japanese chess like screen chess)
     3D board game Score Four.

Some developed programs of puzzles or games are available on the web.

Program Solving Two-Times Sorting Sequence and its Outputs

Two-Times Sorting Sequence is generated as follows.

Starting a certain positive integer, for instance, in case starting from 1, numbers are doubled successively as follows.

    1 → 2 → 4 → 8 → 16

After doubling, the digits of each number in decimal are sorted ascendingly. Therefore, the continued sequence are:

    16 → 32 (sorted  ascendingly) 23 → 46 → 92 (sorted  ascendingly) 29 → 58

I have shown that all the Two-Times Sorting Sequences result in cycles. The computer program for generating all sequences is available.