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Subject: Re: Hashkey collisions (typical numbers)

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 07:59:34 04/07/04

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On April 07, 2004 at 09:19:13, martin fierz wrote:

>On April 07, 2004 at 09:14:42, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>
>>On April 07, 2004 at 08:27:59, martin fierz wrote:
>>
>>>On April 07, 2004 at 06:49:59, Renze Steenhuisen wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>Hi all,
>>>>
>>>>could someone give me some numbers that are common with hashkey collisions?
>>>>Because I guess my % is little too high...
>>>>
>>>>I'm getting like 0.03% [which is 1 every 3000, if I'm not mistaken]
>>>>
>>>>This is when using TT=32MB (haven't got the exact number of entries)
>>>>
>>>>If you think it is an error, any suggestions on where to start looking?
>>>>
>>>>Thanks!
>>>>
>>>>   Renze
>>>
>>>hi renze,
>>>
>>>your number is much too high. a good estimate for the hash collision probability
>>>is 1/sqrt(hashkey_range); which in your case comes out as 2^-32 or about
>>>somewhere around one in a billion...
>>
>>Not at all. It's way less than that with 64 bits Zobrist.
>
>i never took the trouble to measure it, but the math is rather straightforward.
>so i'd say you have an implementation bug too ;-)
>
>cheers
>  martin

As would I.  This has been tested over and over and over.  64 bit signatures
won't produce signature collisions every 7M nodes without a serious bug or very
poor random numbers...


>
>>I measured it with 460 processors at a supercomputer with a shared hashtable and
>>had major problems to get at 7 million nodes a second stored, some
>>errors/collissions.
>>
>>>make sure you're not doing anything wrong with the hashkey updating like
>>>suggested by others - compare with a computed-from-scratch key. also make sure
>>>that your nullmove doesn't break your hashkey. and just to be sure, check that
>>>you haven't got 32-bit numbers instead of 64 bit numbers by accident...
>>>cheers
>>>  martin
>>
>>I'm sure it was some implementation bug with Renze.



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