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Subject: Re: hash numbers requested: authors please read

Author: James Swafford

Date: 04:41:27 09/19/02

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On September 19, 2002 at 03:28:44, Severi Salminen wrote:

>>Or maybe I define a qnode as a node at which the children come
>>from a limited qsearch OR the node is a leaf. :)  There are no
>>standards, I'm afraid.
>
>No standards of course, but I believe the most do as I described. So a leaf node
>is a qnode only if reached _from_ qsearch(). So if you do a 1 ply search in
>initial position, there are no qnodes at all: all 20 leaf nodes are normal
>nodes. You should also (if you want) follow these lines so the numbers would be
>more comparable.

If that's in fact the de facto standard I'd be inclined to switch.
I don't know if that's the case, though (no offense), as I haven't
looked at anybody else's source in quite a while.  (Not that there's
anything wrong with that.)

Are you sure your definition is "standard"?
--
James




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