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[–] [email protected] 59 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago

Tldr Estimated total number of legal chess positions is (4.822 ± 0.028) * 10⁴⁴

[–] iAvicenna 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?