Author: Michel Langeveld
Date: 22:46:20 12/19/01
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On December 19, 2001 at 17:32:12, Roy Eassa wrote:
>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?
This number is the change that 31208 different positions in an hashtable of
16777216 will fight for the same row. The change seems to be
99.99999999997562748%
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