Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 09:40:32 02/18/06
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On February 18, 2006 at 07:52:10, David B Weller wrote: >Hi Vincent, > >Thanks. > >Yes. That is what I am doing. Will try and remove those. > >Let me make sure I understand perfectly: > >If a hash entry is LOWER or UPPER bound AND exceeds current search bounds, just >return bounds. Do NOT return hashed value. > >Yes? > >-David Doesn't sound right. You always want to return the most _accurate_ information you can. If you know that the score is lower than X (from the table), and if X is lower than your current alpha value, return the table value. That's the whole idea of fail-soft. Otherwise it isn't fail-soft if you just return the bound you already have.
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