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Subject: Re: Alert! Bob Hyatt -- The World needs you!

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 09:56:35 07/18/99

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On July 18, 1999 at 12:00:32, Francis Monkman wrote:

>Hi Bob, hope you're doing fine!
>
>Some guy just posted this idea 'over there', wacky or what?
>
>On Sun Jul 18 08:41:18, Zeon wrote:
>> Would it be possible for all our computers to analize in parallel??
>> say via a downloadable program??
>>
>> I would gladly donate my PC and leave on line for the cause!!
>>
>> If a hundred did this for say an hour-surely the results would be
>> interesting.
>>
>> 1000??
>>
>> 10,000-100,000 WOW
>>
>> maybe this is a pipe dream-maybe its just not possible.
>>
>> But surely if it was 10-100,000 PC's in parallel we could WIN by
>> sheer brute force(by analyizing every possible move)
>>
>> Comments welcome
>
>They have done this to break encrytion codes, searching for ET and
>the DNA sequence... I think the programing and site management
>requires time.  This is a very interesting idea, maybe round II we
>can do this...
>
>I figured if anyone can help out, you're the man. Interesting work?
>
>Please feel free to e-mail me.
>
>All the best!
>
>Francis
>
>PS I figure this is pretty much on-topic, no?


The idea sounds attractive, until you realize that the game tree search is
an exponential problem, not a linear one.....  That makes it _very_ difficult
for such a task to be done on computers...



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