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Subject: Re: My Apologies

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 12:11:51 09/28/99

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On September 28, 1999 at 15:04:38, Dave Gomboc wrote:
>On September 28, 1999 at 14:42:24, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On September 27, 1999 at 12:11:16, KarinsDad wrote:
>>
>>>I had wanted (and promised) to send a white paper to CCC this month on the topic
>>>of compressing any legal random position into 20 bytes. However, I have so many
>>>irons in the fire right now, that I am having difficulties getting time to work
>>>on anything chess related (my program included).
>>>
>>>But, I wanted to update people on my progress.
>>>
>>>I currently have 13 cases out of 351 of 161 bits. The other 338 cases are 160
>>>bits or fewer. However, I am not positive of the accuracy of this data due to
>>>the complexity of one of the algorithms. But, it appears to be fairly close to
>>>being accurate. I have been working a little on finishing this one algorithm in
>>>order to finish the white paper, but it is slow going.
>>>
>>>Again, my apologies.
>>In that case, we'll let you live -- as long as you can get the size down to 140
>>bits.
>>;-)
>
>Not even 160 bits?  Man, are you harsh. <g>

I was cutting him a ton of slack.  I have a friend who thinks he can get it down
to around 100.
;-)



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