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Subject: Re: typo. Sorry.

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 09:38:05 11/16/00

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On November 16, 2000 at 12:01:56, Bob Durrett wrote:

>On November 16, 2000 at 11:50:29, Bob Durrett wrote:
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>>source code] dedicated to position evaluation, assuming one can find out this
>>information.  For example, a program with several lines of code devoted to
>>position evaluation might be [perhaps arbitrarily] declared to be "knowledge
>>based" whereas one with a few hundred or less might be called "bean counter."
>>The problem here is that the source code may not be available.  You would have
>>to ask the programmer.  He/she might be willing to answer that question even if
>>unwilling to reveal the code itself.
>
><snip>
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>Sorry about that.
>
>I meant to say "several thousand lines of code" yeilds "knowledge based"

I disagree with the method of counting the number of lines of the source code.

It is possible that one programmer knows to write the same evaluation by less
lines of codes so it is possible that 2 programs with exactly the same knowledge
will have different number of lines of code.

Uri



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