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coding chess (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by Tixanou@lemmy.world to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 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?