Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 15:04:49 01/08/03
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On January 08, 2003 at 15:53:47, Dann Corbit wrote: >On January 08, 2003 at 12:43:38, Uri Blass wrote: >[snip] >>I believe that it is possible even to find an estimate for the number of legal >>position by a monta carlo method when you choose 1000 random pseudo legal >>positions and find how many of them are legal. > >It will never be more than an estimate, though. I don't think it would >constitute a proof, other than a "probabilistic proof" but we already have >guesses. > >>It is a lot of work and I do not consider the problem important enough to do it. >>I also do not think that it will help to solve chess. > >Here, you are clearly correct. It is like saying: >"There are billions of tons of gold in seawater. Now that we have measured how >much gold there is, we should just go get it." > >I still have your program and just recompiled it with a 300 bit mantissa >extended precision class. I will post the result when it completes (I guess >about 5 minutes). 3.701063012120722292782714774145211911596815024e+046
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