Author: blass uri
Date: 20:24:30 11/08/99
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On November 08, 1999 at 20:08:00, Jeremiah Penery wrote: >On November 03, 1999 at 17:25:43, blass uri wrote: > >>I generated a program to find an upper bound on the number of legal positions by >>the same idea some monthes ago. >> >>It found the number >>3.7010630121207222927827147741452119115968e46 >>when you ignore the side to move right to castle and the 50 move rule > > >What was the formula you used to get this number? Have you (or anybody else) >tried to run it in Maple or Mathematica? I think they can do >arbitrary-precision math, and quite quickly. I simply found for every material configuration an upper bound for the number of possible positions and calculated sum of the upper bounds. It is possible to improve the bound by using more inequalities I did not try to run it in maple or Mathematica. Uri Uri
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