Author: Jeremiah Penery
Date: 15:22:51 11/09/99
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On November 08, 1999 at 23:24:30, blass uri wrote: >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 If you have it handy, could you post it here? I don't think I could figure it out right now. :(
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