Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:54:51 06/05/04
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On June 05, 2004 at 15:41:50, Dieter Buerssner wrote: >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 ! I actually got the term from David Slate and Burton Wendroff years ago. You will find them mentioning this term... > >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. > Correct... >>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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