Author: Robert Hollay
Date: 01:59:45 10/14/05
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On October 13, 2005 at 18:16:06, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Have any of you ever found an ad of a program or chess computer that promise >less than that magic number, 99%? Have you ever found one saying it defeats only >97.5% of all players? >Besides, as this happens since the 80', I would expect some ads saying by now >"it defeats 99,99% of all players". >I would expect the recognition of some progress. >No, always 99%. >Never a program promising to defeat just the guy that serves the coffee in the >chess club, but also never a better program defeating almost everyone on Earth. >No. >Just 99% > > >99% Regards >fernando Because 99% is a "psychological" number. It means that the program can defeat "almost" everybody. 100% would be exaggeration, because someone can beat it now and then. Pablo at least ;-). In this sense 99.9999% or 99% are all the same. Robert
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