Author: Dieter Buerssner
Date: 12:41:50 06/05/04
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On June 05, 2004 at 06:05:51, GeoffW wrote: >Hello Dieter >>Many people use the term "draft" instead of "depth", in my reasoning. > >I know Bob uses that term and it confuses the hell out of me ! Me, too. But now, I looked in the dictionary. I was aware of several meanings of draft. But none made any sense, in this context (to me). I think, now I understand. My Webster's shows as 16. (of 32 different meanings) Naut. The depth to which a vessek is immersed when bearing a given load. This seems to make sense. >I always think of the search as progressing downwards, the term "draft" I think >of as the distance below the waterline. I.E the depth we have still to go in the >search, Yes >so that storing "draft" in the hash table seems wrong to me. Perhaps I misunderstand. I'd say no! You want to store the depth, that remains until qsearch/eval in the HT, not the depth you have done already until this move. Of course, when you store it, you already have done that remaining depth, too, because you searched the tree starting from the now current position that deep. Regards, Dieter
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