Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 13:57:23 01/25/05
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On January 25, 2005 at 16:54:55, Dann Corbit wrote: >On January 25, 2005 at 16:53:03, Olaf Jenkner wrote: > >>> >>> >>>but to store a 32 piece tablebase would be a lot 'smaller'. >>> >>>might a 2.5 by 2.5 kilometre crystal do the trick ? >>> >>> >>>duncan >> >>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. Good try, but GM's would already have found that mate in 40 if it would exist. So it's just not there. Have a bit faith. Vincent
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