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Subject: Re: A math problem for the experts....

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 15:38:55 10/01/01

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On October 01, 2001 at 17:41:59, Roy Eassa wrote:

>On October 01, 2001 at 15:48:50, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>My counting positions program found that
>>3.7010630121207222927827147741452119115968e46 is an upper bound when I
>>considered only the squares of the pieces and did not consider side to move,en
>>passant rule and rights to castle.
>
>
>Would it be reasonable to round this off to 3.7e46?  Or are all the extra digits
>really important?

It is reasonable to call it 3.7e46

Remember that it is only an upper bound and a lot of illegal positions are also
included in this number and the position that dann corbit posted is only one
example

Uri



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