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Subject: Re: What do programmers think about a chess algorithm??

Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba

Date: 03:31:26 12/11/02

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On December 10, 2002 at 18:24:40, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On December 10, 2002 at 18:05:15, Ingo Lindam wrote:
>
>>On December 10, 2002 at 17:56:49, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>On December 10, 2002 at 17:51:40, Ingo Lindam wrote:
>>>
>>>>On December 10, 2002 at 17:30:47, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On December 10, 2002 at 13:42:36, Bernardo Wesler wrote:
>>>>>[snip]
>>>>>>THE ALGORITHM. A MATHEMATICAL FORMULA THAT , FOR EXAMPLE, ASSURE YOU THAT IF YOU
>>>>>>DO THE FIRST MOVE YOU ALWAYS WIN.
>>>>>>I MEAN TO THINK ABOUT DISCOVERING A CHESS ALGORITHM IS AN UTHOPY?
>>>>>
>>>>>Provably impossible on current hardware and software systems.
>>>>>Maybe in 100 years the game will be formally solved.  Not in the near futre.
>>>>
>>>>provably impossible on current hardware...?
>>>>are you sure?
>>>
>>>I think he meant probably and not provably.
>>
>>unfortunately I meant provably and is absolutely sure that there isn't any doubt
>>about this!
>>
>>so I guess the answer/solution/proof on the question: How many prime numbers
>>exist?
>
>The number of primes is uncountable.  Euclid proved it quite a while ago.
>

It is 'infinite'. 'uncountable' is a technical mathematical word in English
which means something else (and no, the set of prime numbers is not
uncountable).
José.



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