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Subject: Re: O(1) garbage

Author: David Rasmussen

Date: 00:46:27 05/18/01

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On May 17, 2001 at 20:52:51, Jeremiah Penery wrote:

>On May 17, 2001 at 17:50:11, Ralf Elvsén wrote:
>
>>I think Jesper is concerned over the use of the O()-notation. If one
>>thinks chess scales exponentially with search depth in a "practical"
>>sense only, one should say "my-homemade-O(a^n)".
>
>Chess is definitely o(exp(n)) (little-o), whether it is O(exp(n)) (big-O) or
>not.  I'm already arguing in a different thread, and I won't expand that here.

What do you mean by "chess is o(exp(n))" ? What parameter of chess are you
correlating with what other parameter of chess, to say that the function that
describes this correlation is o(exp(n))? Chess is not an algorithm.

Do you mean e.g. the alpha-beta algorithm? Or do you mean Crafty, viewed as an
"algorithm"?



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