On 13 juin 2011, at 10:12, Rémi Coulom wrote: > On 12 juin 2011, at 19:46, Petr Baudis wrote >> >> I coined the term but did not invent the concept. I think the earliest >> mention of the formula is in Sterm et al, Bayesian Pattern Ranking for >> Move Prediction in the Game of Go; it was also for sure mentioned in >> Remi's Elo pattern paper. > > The MS guys used a different distance. But the idea is so simple I am sure it > was independently invented by many. After a quick Google search, I found that > paper that calls it the "Manhattan-Chebychev Distance": > http://www.phybit.com/docs/mcd.pdf
"octagonal distance" seems a more common name: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/002002559090008X Rémi _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
