Why do you think that there is a 3 in the denominator? On Aug 9, 2017 2:29 PM, "Marc Landgraf" <mahrgel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't mind your terminology, in fact I feel like it is a good way to > distinguish the two different things. It is just that I considiered one > thing wrongly used instead of the other for the discussion here. > > But if we go with the link you are suggesting here: > Shouldnt that number at most be 722^#positions? Since adding a black or a > white stone is something fundamentally different? > > 2017-08-09 20:50 GMT+02:00 John Tromp <john.tr...@gmail.com>: > >> > And what is the connection between the number of "positions" and the >> number >> > of games >> >> The number of games is at most 361^#positions. >> >> > or even solving games? In the game trees we do not care about >> > positions, but about situations. >> >> We care about lots of things, including intersections, stones, >> liberties, strings, positions, sets of previous positions. >> >> > I'm actually surprised that this "absurd" to you... >> >> I said that referring to a board configuration together with the set >> of all previously occurring board configurations (and turn to move) as >> "position" is absurd. >> We need a simple word to denote a board configuration, and "position" fits >> that requirement. A good word for all the relevant historical >> information leading up to a position is "situation". >> >> -John >> _______________________________________________ >> Computer-go mailing list >> Computer-go@computer-go.org >> http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Computer-go mailing list > Computer-go@computer-go.org > http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go >
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