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Subject: Re: MTD(f) and hash table size

Author: Rudolf Huber

Date: 12:08:12 08/17/03

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On August 17, 2003 at 14:09:19, Tord Romstad wrote:

>On August 17, 2003 at 04:27:06, Rudolf Huber wrote:
>
>>First scan you source files for occurences of alpha and beta.
>
>There are no alphas or betas left -- I rewrote search() and qsearch() from
>scratch
>when implementing MTD(f).  I only have the single parameter (gamma), like in
>Aske Plaat's paper.
>
>>If you find any look hard and try to understand what you are doing there. In
>>mtd(f) there ist NO alpha and NO real beta. All the things (lazy eval?)
>>you do with alpha and beta are most likely wrong. Use the last score instead.
>
>What does the "last score" mean in the above sentence?

Yes, sorry. I mean the score from the previous iteration. You can also
that score for lazy eval.

Rudolf



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