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Subject: Re: Googol

Author: Anthony Cozzie

Date: 12:23:48 03/19/05

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On March 19, 2005 at 09:13:47, Norm Pollock wrote:

>Does a chess game exceed 1 googol (1.0x10^100) possible moves?
>
>Yes!
>
>A 60 move (120 ply) game with an average of 30 possible moves per ply has
>
>30^120 =  possible moves = 1.8 x 10^177

I'm not sure exactly what you are trying to measure, but there have been long
threads here where people were able to pack a chessboard into 120 bits or so,
which means there are no more than 10^40 or so unique chess positions.

anthony



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