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Subject: Re: Highest branching factor, games of chance

Author: Albert Bertilsson

Date: 08:11:12 03/13/03

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On March 13, 2003 at 09:46:02, Hans van der Zijden wrote:

>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
>
Bad memory and bad calculation...

Looked it up, each of the 21 possible outcomes in backgammon has a branching
factor generally around 20 but in rare cases up to 4000, you do the math =).

/Regards Albert



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