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

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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