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Subject: OT: "Impossible" vs. "improbable"

Author: Shep

Date: 00:43:15 11/15/99

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On November 15, 1999 at 01:49:17, Georg Langrath wrote:

>Sometimes I can se messages discussing if Chessmaster 6000 is optimally tuned in
>its parameters. I can promise that it is not. It is mathematically impossible.
>There are milliards of possibilities in making different characters as
>Chessmaster 6666 and so on. To get optimal settings is impossible. As to win
>highest winning ticket in a lottery a million times in a row.

As a mathematician, I have to jump in here and correct you. :)
You probably mean "statistically improbable".
It is not _impossible_ to find the optimal CM settings (or to win the lottery a
million successive times) because the number of settings is finite, so you could
(given a large, but finite amount of time) try them all out and come up with the
best one.

Sorry to be nit-picking, but I felt that had to be said. :))

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Shep



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