Author: Sune Fischer
Date: 03:42:36 02/18/03
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On February 18, 2003 at 06:13:23, chandler yergin wrote: >On February 18, 2003 at 05:59:44, Andreas Stabel wrote: > >>On February 18, 2003 at 05:58:13, george wrote: >> >>>50.000.000 games for sure. >>I would say more than that, at least 57 714 511 games. >> >>Regards >>Andreas >Previous Posts from mathmaticians have estimated >"more than the grains of sand or molecules in the observable Universe" >10 to the 43rd power was a conservative estimate. >Steinitz in his Handbook also answers the question... but I don't >have the copy. That also depends on what you call different games, are transpositions different? If so I think <BF>^60 will take you to the right ballpark, <BF>=35 or so. IE. a million should be a safe lower bound.... -S.
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