Author: blass uri
Date: 12:45:06 08/07/00
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On August 07, 2000 at 15:27:09, Mogens Larsen wrote: >On August 07, 2000 at 14:58:52, blass uri wrote: > >>This is your interpretation. >>I responded to the claim that the subject should not be allowed because there >>are at most 5 people who are interested in the subject. > >Noone but you used the number 5. I suggest reading your own messages one more >time. The following lines are copied from the post I responded to: "when questions about crafty is asked ....moderators (some) requests to use the crafty mailing list. ( yesh i know crafty has a mailing list and CM doesnt). but if you really look around there are ATMOST 5 peoples who are actually interested in CM book or anything regarding it. But there are literally 100s of people who are interested in crafty questions." You can see the words ATMOST 5 peoples > >>It was clear to me that I disagree about it. >> >>I did not express opinion about cases when there are less than 5 people because >>I did not think about this case when I responded. > >What you think isn't really the question. The fact is that the sentence: > >"I think 5 people is big enough to allow discussion about a subject." > >cannot be interpreted as anything but a lower limit. > >>If a chess program has evaluation of mate in 10 it means that there is mate in >>at most 10 moves. >>It does not prove that there is no mate in less than 10 moves. >> >>The logic is the same logic. > >No, the above example is an upper limit, so the logic isn't the same. Otherwise >all posts with more than 5 participants shouldn't be allowed. If you look at the posts that should be allowed than the fact that 5 participants should be allowed prove that more than 5 should be allowed but does not prove nothing about the cases of less than 5. The same logic is for mate. The fact that the program found that there is a mate in at most 5 moves proves that there is a mate in at most 6 moves but does not prove if there is or there is not a mate in 4 moves or less than 4 moves. Uri Uri
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