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Subject: Re: Hash Table/Best Move

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 10:09:35 07/29/03

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On July 29, 2003 at 12:25:39, Rick Bischoff wrote:

>Hi,
>
>While my rate of 118/88570 was indeed high (I had a bug in the zobrist key
>generation...), the rate you quote (one false match every few days) is way too
>low!!  Hash size is really irrelevant here assuming you store the full 64 bit
>key in the hash table and only return a move if the keys match (which is what I
>am doing);  Anyway, it is the birthday paradox.. the more keys you have, the
>better chance there is that at least two of them will share a key.

Let assume that you have 2^24 keys.
It means that the probability for collision is 1/2^40 so you may get less than
one collision for  2^40 nodes or one collision in few days.

Uri



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