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Subject: Re: O(1) garbage

Author: Jesper Antonsson

Date: 15:11:57 05/15/01

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On May 15, 2001 at 11:53:32, David Rasmussen wrote:

>On May 15, 2001 at 06:40:58, Martin Schubert wrote:
>
>>
>>O-Notation is never about one specific problem, it's about one "family" of
>>problems. If you want to look at the asymptotical behaviour of chess, you need
>>an input n, for example the size of the board. Other things don't make sense.
>>You can't say, something is O(1) because of something is bounded. First you have
>>to define what your "n" is, and then look at the asymptotical behaviour.
>>It doesn't matter for example, if you play chess only on a 8x8-board. The
>>question is "what would happen if you played on a nxn-board?".
>>
>>Martin
>
>Exactly.

Most of us are talking about chess and "n" as "target search depth".



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