Author: Tim Foden
Date: 10:22:25 11/30/01
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On November 28, 2001 at 15:31:52, Derek Mauro wrote: >On November 28, 2001 at 13:41:26, Tony Werten wrote: > >>On November 28, 2001 at 13:05:23, Derek Mauro wrote: >> >>>When I call search(), I'm supposed to be using -INFINITY as alpha and INFINITY >>>as beta. Anyway, I've never used INFINITY in a program before. How do I use >>>INFINIITY? Do I need to include a special library or just define it as the >>>largest possible int value, or something else? >> >>Just use the value you use for checkmate (without depth correction ) That's >>infinite enough. >> >>Tony > >Thanks. I figured there was no way to represent infinity on a computer and I >was testing it with the mate score. I was really just wondering about the whole >thing. Well... actually in IEEE floating point both +INF and -INF are valid values. :) But in an integer, there is no automatic way, no. Cheers, Tim.
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