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

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 15:52:39 01/13/05

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On January 13, 2005 at 18:26:56, Dieter Buerssner wrote:

>On January 13, 2005 at 13:32:42, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>Dann, I don't want to speculate too much, neither do I have much to contradict.
>But ...
>
>>And there is certainly no reason to search/solve positions more than once.
>
>When you have the memory to remember all those previous searches. Therefore my
>estimation of the atoms on the earth. I agree with you, that we don't have to
>remember previous searches that end in KQQQQK. Seems still difficult enough for
>the rest of my live. Perhaps we remember this little conversation in 20 years.

If I have a hash table of every position possible, I will always find the exact
position in my database.

So at most, I will need 10^48 even if 162 bits are fully needed and I cannot
eliminate a single position from my table.  That is atoms in the earth, not the
universe.

I suggest that almost all of them are useless and will never be visited.
But prophecy is not my strong point (I thought Microsoft Stock was a sure
failure on the initial offering and so I did not buy any.)



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