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Subject: Re: 8 men - long posting

Author: Jeremiah Penery

Date: 17:29:41 10/17/03

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On October 15, 2003 at 10:44:02, Tony Werten wrote:

>On October 14, 2003 at 20:13:12, Jeremiah Penery wrote:
>
>>On October 14, 2003 at 14:14:17, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>
>>>3822 kppppppk 00030000 18216798468   --    --    --   --
>>>3823 knpppppk 00068000 149906121948   --    --    --   --
>>>3824 knnppppk 000A0000 510827085900   --    --    --   --
>>>3825 knnnpppk 000D8000 922888768444   --    --    --   --
>>>3826 knnnnppk 00110000 932539520220   --    --    --   --
>>>3827 knnnnnpk 00148000 499799737764   --    --    --   --
>>>3828 knnnnnnk 00180000 28401227778   --    --    --   --
>>>3829 kbpppppk 00228000 149906121948   --    --    --   --
>>>3830 kbnppppk 00260000 1021654171800   --    --    --   --
>>>3831 kbnnpppk 00298000 2768666305332   --    --    --   --
>>
>>Why would you even bother with ones like these?  I'm not going to bother with
>>the calculations, but I'm sure you could save a TON of space by eliminating
>>useless/unneeded/impossible piece sets from that list.
>
>I'm afraid not. These silly one will be "small" compared to the usefull ones and
>won't really matter.

Look at the number of positions listed for those, and figure the total number of
'useless' configurations.  It might not be a huge fraction of the total, but
it's still a huge number by itself.



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