My question is regarding a mod-deleted answer to: Digital Logic circuit - exam question. In this day and age with modern design methods, it seems to me that a software algorithm used to solve a difficult design problem or prove it is unsolvable, is a valuable tool.
An answer by new user @Ido Kessler presented some source-code that he said ran for 2 hours and returned false. The answer needed a little improvement so I wrote a comment asking that he include a description of the algorithm and his level of confidence that the algorithm was correct and the software bug-free. The question was deleted while I was writing the comment.
Ido Kessler obviously spent some time working on this method of proof and I was intrigued as his method could be adapted to other hardware-design problems and be a useful tool. I therefore feel that this was an important answer and should not have been deleted.
I should note that I had not yet up-voted the answer as I wanted to wait for the improvements I was suggesting, and verification that no one else had a valid solution to the problem (no one did).
What better answer could there be to a problem that is un-solvable than a proof showing that the problem is unsolvable?
Edit: I know that the line for software here is often drawn between embedded (allowed) and PCs (often not allowed); but although the software in the answer was probably intended for a PC, the software was intended to solve a hardware design problem and in my opinion allowances need to be made for that.
Edit2: Here is the link to the restored answer: https://electronics.stackexchange.com/a/330122/25328
