Author: Sune Fischer
Date: 16:06:23 04/05/04
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On April 05, 2004 at 18:58:57, Andrew Wagner wrote: >On April 05, 2004 at 18:42:57, rasjid chan wrote: > >>On April 05, 2004 at 15:59:40, Dann Corbit wrote: >> >>What fruits! I can't yet digest the apple. >> >>On a more serious note, it seems there MAY BE much more in hashing >>than what I know - UB, LB, EX. I need time to see what all these mean. > >UB = Upper bound, LB = Lower bound, EX = exact. > >When you store a value in the hash table, sometimes it will not be exact, so you >store some flag along with it that says what kind of position it is. If you just >failed high, all you know is that the score is at least X. If if failed low, all >you know is the score is at most X. And if the score is between alpha and beta, >it's exact. > Yes, those names probably confuse more than anything. I use H_BETA for lower bound and H_ALPHA for upper bound. I don't want to risk bugs because I misread fail-lows with lower bound. -S. >>Rasjid
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