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Subject: Re: Lies.. Damn Lies & Statistics!

Author: chandler yergin

Date: 16:47:33 01/12/05

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On January 12, 2005 at 19:45:00, gerold daniels wrote:

>On January 12, 2005 at 19:27:05, chandler yergin wrote:
>
>>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
>
>good evening chess programs have just begun.in 5 years no man will be able to
>beat a good chess program.

Horse Pucky!


 think of how many men today can beat the top 5
>engines.as far as the perfect chess program that is many years off with the
>computers of today it won,t happen. but in 4 or 5 years the computer and the
>software that run them will be a lot diff. and so will the language.
>
>good luck gerold.

I see you don't understand the situation either!



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