Re: [computer-go] rotate board

2007-12-20 Thread Arthur W Cater
That was my first thought too - actually my 2nd, my 1st was (8*8/2)/(2^64) - but I reason, one particular choice of position A's 8 must match one particular choice of position B's, rather than any one of A's matching the particular one of B's. But since the choosing is biased, the chance of

Re: [computer-go] rotate board

2007-12-20 Thread Arthur W Cater
I think that would be worse. There are lots of sets of 8 numbers that sum the same, far more than there are sets of 8 with the same minimum element. Arthur - Original Message - From: Álvaro Begué [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, December 20, 2007 4:08 pm Subject: Re: [computer-go]

Re: [computer-go] rotate board

2007-12-20 Thread Arthur W Cater
I stand corrected. Arthur - Original Message - From: Álvaro Begué [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, December 20, 2007 4:37 pm Subject: Re: [computer-go] rotate board To: computer-go computer-go@computer-go.org On Dec 20, 2007 11:23 AM, Arthur W Cater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I

Re: [computer-go] Re: pseudoliberties

2007-03-29 Thread Arthur W Cater
It's really a way to incrementally update liberties in a fast way - each stone keeps it's own count of liberties and it is summed - but of course it doesn't represent the true number of liberties since a point can get counted 2 or more times.However, if the count goes to zero, the