Jeffrey Rainy wrote:
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Also, 2^25 is not the actual number of possible 5x5 board positions.
On one hand,
the capture rule lowers this number a lot. On the other hand, the ko
rule raises this
number somehow. But that is just nitpicking ;-)
Jeff.
Of what value is the number 2^25? That doesn't seem relevant to me. A
first estimate of the number of different games is 25!, which is a much
bigger number than 2^25. (Symettry will reduce it, but the capture of
large groups will increase it.)
2^25 is the number of different full boards, with no empty
intersections, from all black stones to all white stones.
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