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Subject: Re: Computational question for mathematicians, philosophers & computer-g

Author: Axel Schumacher

Date: 22:37:37 03/02/05

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On March 03, 2005 at 01:09:27, Reinhard Scharnagl wrote:

>On March 02, 2005 at 18:59:18, Axel Schumacher wrote:
>
>>...
>>1. For each data-point (e.g. let's say the position of a pawn on the chessboard)
>>one requires 1 bit (either 0 or 1). Right? However, the information does not
>>include where the pawn is located. So, how much data has to be stored to
>>describe e.g. the position of a pawn?
>>...
>
>See at http://www.chessbox.de/Compu/schachzahl1b_e.html where it is shown, that
>in average there is a limit of 164 bit to store a complete 8x8 board situation.
>
>Reinhard.


Hello Reinhard,
thanks for the link; I missed that when reading through your page before.
Yet, the whole thing of storing information (especially useful and logical one)
is far from trivial.

Axel



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