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Subject: Re: My Apologies

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 12:26:26 09/28/99

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On September 28, 1999 at 15:11:51, Dann Corbit wrote:

>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.
>;-)

<grin>  hahahahahaha

This is someone who you showed Nievergelt's comments to, or are you referring to
Nievergelt himself? :-)

Dave



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