Electronic Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics

San Antonio, Texas, March 6-9, 2008

Paper S077

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Using Mathematica to Solve the Lights Out Game

David Nawrocki


Albright College


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ABSTRACT

This paper describes how to solve the Lights Out game using graph theory and programming techniques incorporating Mathematica.

Keyword(s): Mathematica, applications, discrete mathematics, programming