Re: [computer-go] Using floating point sounds very strange to me

[Robin Kramer <robin@xxxxxxxx>]

Don Dailey wrote:

> A lot of programs measure influence by means of probabilities, where a
> floating point representation is much more natural.  So you might see
> a point on the board as being BLACK with 0.70 probability.
>  
I think when it comes to probabilities, you would be better off storing 
the ratio of the two numbers, so that you can keep track of how 
confident you are about the move, think 7 out of 10 times that point was 
blacks, versus 70 out of 100 times, there is much more "confidence" in a 
move which is made often against a professional versus one that was made 
once against a novice... I suppose the detail is, reading memory twice, so

struct prob{
   short int top;
   short int bottom;
};

typdef unsigned long memprob;

register memprob a;
((prob)a).top = 70;
((prob)a).bottom = 100;

This way the compiler will keep the CPU from going out to main memory twice.

Robin Kramer
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