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Subject: Re: off topic

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 09:18:33 01/24/05

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On January 24, 2005 at 12:16:07, Duncan Roberts wrote:

>On January 24, 2005 at 12:04:56, Dieter Buerssner wrote:
>
>>On January 24, 2005 at 11:53:38, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>
>>> It might require the square of that (so 50,000*50,000 acres).
>>
>>Dann, think again about this :-) Also, assume for a moment, you had given the
>>area in square miles instead of acres. Now square that area, or in square light
>>years - you will come to the conclusion, that almost no space at all will be
>>needed ... . And of course, if you square an area, you don't have an area
>>anymore, but rather something with dimentsion length^^4.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>Dieter
>
>after running your program overnight, I found that the nps went down a lot.
>can anything be done about this ?

It't probably a good thing.  It means the hash table was getting lots of hits.
I bet if you look at the time to ply, it was getting less and less as time went
on.

NPS is a misleading indicator much of the time.




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