Author: Andreas Herrmann
Date: 14:39:44 03/22/03
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On March 22, 2003 at 15:59:38, Russell Reagan wrote: >I am writing an amazons playing program, and I am wondering how I can determine >whether I should use 32-bit or 64-bit hash keys. In chess, research has shown >64-bit keys to be better, but in other games a 32-bit key would be more than >sufficient. How do I determine what is the best key size (not only for amazons, >but for any game)? Is it a trial and error process, or can a good estimate be >made if (say) the approximate state space of the game in question is known? > >Thanks, >Russell Hi, look to the paper of Dennis Breuker. Inside you will find some statistics about hash collisions. http://www.breuker.demon.nl/thesis/index.html Andreas
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