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Subject: Re: negative extensions

Author: Ed Schröder

Date: 07:49:36 01/25/01

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On January 25, 2001 at 08:41:54, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>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.
>
>This is often called razoring. Heinz describes it in his articles
>together with futility pruning. Robert used it for some time but
>ditched it awterwards. I still use them, I know Amy uses them also
>and probably several other programs.

Razoring is something else, it cuts the tree, like a hash table hit.

Ed


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>GCP



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