Author: chandler yergin
Date: 21:55:25 01/12/05
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On January 12, 2005 at 22:07:30, Les Fernandez 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... > >Intricate?? Not really, the game is more or less made up of only about 8 types >of moves. You seem to enjoy talking about what is impossible so I want to give >you something to think about. Suppose I told you that I can store up to 120 >chess positions with the analyses using < 400 bits!! (just about 3.3 >bits/position. So WHAT? Disprove what I wrote.. or STUFF Ur $0.02 u know where! Using your in depth knowledge of math do you think thats >possible???. I mean anyone knows you can only store 2 pieces of information per >bit, Right?? BTW the symbol "<" means less than if you didnt know. > > >>OR, >>Re-think your position? >> >>HMMMMM? >>Stop the Nonsense! >>CY
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