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Subject: Re: Highest branching factor, games of chance

Author: Hans van der Zijden

Date: 06:46:02 03/13/03

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On March 13, 2003 at 03:34:17, Albert Bertilsson wrote:

>Games of chance have very high branching factors in generally, take backgamon
>for example where dices are rolled, the outcome is any of 21 combinations, this
>is multiplied by the average branching factor of each move, say 20, you then get
>a branching factor around 4000.


21 x 20 = 420


>
>There are probably some other games with even higher branching factors, but
>backgamon is the highest I've read about.
>
>/Regards Albert



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