Author: Sune Fischer
Date: 09:38:08 03/20/02
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On March 20, 2002 at 08:14:30, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On March 20, 2002 at 07:44:18, Sune Fischer wrote: > >>Of cause you can't _actually_ reach +-inf, for several reasons. >> >>It would take an infinite number of games, which would require an infinite amout >>of time. >>And even the perfect player must be rated below +inf because chess is limited >>yada yada yada random player etc.... > >This is true if everything is calibrated to the same reference. However, >there's no reason this has to be true (and in practise, it's often problematic >to relate to the reference). > >If can choose my reference as low as I want it to. >(Whether or not that allows me to to reach -inf, err, I don't want to >think about :) Well +-Inf has nothing to do with the reference, unless you want to translate by +-Inf. The "distance" to -Inf is still infinite whether you are at -1000 or +3000 :) -S. > >-- >GCP
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