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Subject: Re: And now for the PVS experts -- two bounds?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 12:04:26 04/14/04

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On April 14, 2004 at 14:51:25, Peter Fendrich wrote:

>On April 14, 2004 at 14:00:47, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>Are there any PVS style programs that store both an upper and lower bounds (and
>>I imagine they will also need two depths as well.)?
>>
>>I am curious to find out if there is value so that I can write a very general
>>program where I can switch algorithms at will.
>
>
>It seems to violate the very soul of PVS. Null window in order to get fastest
>possible search. Storing lower and upper bounds (you don't mean alpha/beta, do
>you?) means other types of search.

Well, that's on the one hand.  On the other hand, every search except for pv
nodes is a null window search like MTD(f) and therefore returns a bound instead
of an exact value.

I wasn't sure what I might do with the data, but it seems to me that a clever
fellow might think of something.



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