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Subject: Re: question to Prof Hyatt on environmental care.

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 13:54:55 01/25/05

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On January 25, 2005 at 16:53:03, Olaf Jenkner wrote:

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>>but to store a 32 piece tablebase would be a lot 'smaller'.
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>>might  a 2.5 by 2.5 kilometre crystal  do the trick ?
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>>duncan
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>We have about 10^42 positions to store.
>The third root is 10^14.
>Take a 1000^3 km crystal. You must store 100000 positions
>at one millimeter. 100 at one micrometer. Maybe, the crystal was too
>big.
>
>Perhaps 99,999999% of the legal positions will never be
>necessary to compute the tree. Than we can take a smaller cube.

There may also be some solution near to the origin that takes a paltry few
sextillion operations to solve.



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