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Subject: Re: Question about Bit storage

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 11:30:08 01/30/02

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On January 30, 2002 at 05:52:02, Peter McKenzie wrote:
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>I finally gave in and had a quick scan of this thread ... the argument here
>seems pretty conclusive.  Unless there is something else to this magical
>compression scheme that was overlooked?

Yes.  Instead of trying to encode every chess position that is possible, you
encode a subset.

Let's suppose that I want to encode a mere trillion chess positions.
Suppose further that I can average 3 bits per position and store the whole mess
in 3 trillion bits.

You tell me how the math works out.



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