Tixanou@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · 10 months agocoding chesslemmy.worldimagemessage-square45fedilinkarrow-up1670
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minus-squareapprehentice@lemmy.enchanted.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up55·10 months agoThey’ve still got a long way to go
minus-squareEch@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·10 months agoTldr Estimated total number of legal chess positions is (4.822 ± 0.028) * 10⁴⁴
minus-squareiAvicenna@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-210 months ago“John Tromp and Peter Österlund estimated the number of legal chess positions with a 95% confidence level at ( 4.822 ± 0.028 ) × 10^44, based on an efficiently computable bijection between integers and chess positions.” %95 confidenece level? Did they make a poll?
They’ve still got a long way to go
Tldr Estimated total number of legal chess positions is (4.822 ± 0.028) * 10⁴⁴
“John Tromp and Peter Österlund estimated the number of legal chess positions with a 95% confidence level at ( 4.822 ± 0.028 ) × 10^44, based on an efficiently computable bijection between integers and chess positions.”
%95 confidenece level? Did they make a poll?