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Subject: Re: Who knows the answer of this:

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 14:32:12 12/19/01

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On December 19, 2001 at 16:57:46, Michel Langeveld wrote:

>Problem = 1 - ( 16777216! / (16746008! * 16777216 ^ 31208) )
>
>16777216 = Number of records in my hashtable
>31208    = Number of nodes searched
>
>Windows calculator says BOOM.
>
>If Problem > 0.5 then I've spend 15 hours debugging for nothing :-)


Assuming the exclamation point ("!") means factorial, that's an awfully big
number for most tools to handle.  Could you explain the meaning of the equation,
chess-wise?



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