Number of legal 18x18 Go positions computed. One more to go

Re:Number of legal 18x18 Go positions computed. One more to go by lambda on Sunday March 08, 2015 @11:12PM (#9168785)

Actually, it's interesting in the sense of combinatorial game theory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatorial_game_theory) not the branch of decision theory for interactive rational agents known as game theory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_theory). Two only very distantly related subjects which unfortunately have confusingly similar names.

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Re:Number of legal 18x18 Go positions computed. One more to go by CurtMonash on Monday March 09, 2015 @07:27AM (#9170320)

Got it. That said, I use "game theory" in the sense in which it's defined, not least because my thesis was in the subject. :)

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Re:Number of legal 18x18 Go positions computed. One more to go by lambda on Monday March 09, 2015 @12:09PM (#9171733)

Yes, that is the meaning of plain old "game theory", and I also think that's the meaning that the person you were replying to meant; I just wanted to point out that there is something with "game theory" in its name which is much more applicable to Go.

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Re:Number of legal 18x18 Go positions computed. One more to go by Chichikov on Sunday March 08, 2015 @11:31PM (#9168860)

Sorry, did you mean to write "rational rational agents"? If so, why repeat "rational"?

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Re:Number of legal 18x18 Go positions computed. One more to go by lambda on Sunday March 08, 2015 @11:36PM (#9168881)

Nope, it was a typo; I edited my phrasing a couple of times, and the last edit left two copies of the word. Fixed, thanks.

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