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Subject: Re: negative extensions

Author: José Carlos

Date: 05:41:08 01/25/01

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On January 25, 2001 at 08:20:26, David Rasmussen wrote:

>Howdy.
>
>Inspired by the thread on extensions, I was wondering whether the idea of
>negative extensions or reductions could be a good one.
>
>I mean, maybe many of the "unsound" pruning methods would be sounder if, instead
>of just pruning, they just adjusted the resulting depth down. In that way, a
>line would still be examined, only later.

  Sounds like a "conservative pruning". Less risk of missing something... and
less tree reduction. But can be interesting, of course.

  José C.



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