Author: chandler yergin
Date: 16:27:05 01/12/05
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On January 12, 2005 at 19:11:12, Dann Corbit wrote: >On January 12, 2005 at 19:04:31, chandler yergin wrote: > >>So says Mark Twain.... >> >>You Programmers are spreading lies, misinformation, & disinformation. >> >>However I should not attribute to Malice, what can be explained by Ignorance! >> >>Computers will NEVER SOLVE CHESS! >>Stop your Nonsense! > >If man were meant to fly, he'd have wings. >Man will never fly faster than sound. >Man will never go to the moon. > >Things that seem impossible quickly become possible. > >In this particular case, it is even obvious mathematically how it will come >about. If you understood Mathmatics, you wouldn't say that! It IS Obvious, that it's an Impossibility! The Question of "whether or not God exists" is a Philosophical & Meataphysical Question. Would you agree? Some say.. "It can't be Proven". With a Philosophical Question, there are NO 'right or wrong' answers... With Mathmatics, there ARE 'right & wrong' answers. Your perception is in error! THINK! "In a tree, from the Starting Position, there are 20 possible moves for white. There are 20 * 20 = 400 possible moves for black, depending on what white does. Then there are 400 * 20 = 8,000 for white. Then there are 8,000 * 20 = 160,000 for black, and so on. If you were to fully develop the entire tree for all possible chess moves, the total number of board positions is about 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000, or 10^120, give or take a few. That's a very big number. For example, there have only been 10^26 nanoseconds since the Big Bang. There are thought to be only 10^75 atoms in the entire universe. When you consider that the Milky Way galaxy contains billions of suns, and there are billions of galaxies, you can see that that's a whole lot of atoms. That number is dwarfed by the number of possible chess moves. Chess is a pretty intricate game!" NOW, Do you want to "Disprove" this... OR, Re-think your position? HMMMMM? Stop the Nonsense! CY
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