Andreas Launila wrote: > Since we now have to start exploring the search space we make a guess > that e=4. Propagating the constraints once again with e given the domain > 4 will directly result in a failure, so we backtrack and now know that > e!=4. With that information we redo the propagation and directly end up > at the solution with no need to explore any further. So in total we only > need to explore 4 out of 9^2*10^6 nodes in the search space. > The last part is probably a bit misleading/incorrect. We are not directly exploring the space of all possible assignments when we branch, so saying that we have explored 4 nodes in that space is incorrect (i.e. we have not just explored 4 possible assignments, but we have visited just 4 nodes in our search space). -- Andreas Launila