Author: blass uri
Date: 16:39:07 05/28/99
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On May 28, 1999 at 19:22:23, KarinsDad wrote: <snip> >>This assumption is not correct but it is close to be correct. > >Not really. Only about 1/15th (not 1/16th) of the cases will be legal. The >reason is that your white square bishop calculations used 36*35/2 instead of >18*17/2 and your black square bishop calculations used 34*33/2 instead of >18*17/2. > You cannot say that there is 36 squares remaining for a white square >bishop when it can only go on the white squares (approximately 36/2 = 18 >squares). if you assume 18 white squares then it is 18*17 and not 18*17/2 because the order is important(in the case of 36*35/2 the order was not important because I chose 2 bishops with the same colour when the colour of the square was not important) Uri
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