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To make sense of big numbers like this where any state is valid, I find it good to compare with cryptographic key sizes, so in case anyone else is wondering: l
by ultramancool 11y ago
To make sense of big numbers like this where any state is valid, I find it good to compare with cryptographic key sizes, so in case anyone else is wondering:
log_2(L19) = 565 bits
- dragontamer 11y agoChess is also a great game to compare against, since these numbers have been computed for chess many years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon_number https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon_number 10^43 is the approximate number of chess positions. In contrast, 19x19 Go has approximately 10^170 positions.
- Houshalter 11y agoMost people would probably find decimal digits more intuitive than binary digits. Which the article says is 171. And even writes them all out to give a sense of how huge that number is.