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Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months ago

TIL Of Shannon's number. This number states that the game of chess holds more move possibilities than the entire universe holds atoms.

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TIL Of Shannon's number. This number states that the game of chess holds more move possibilities than the entire universe holds atoms.

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Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months ago
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Which is greater? The number of atoms in the universe or the number of chess moves?
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The question came from Claude Shannon, inventor of ‘Information Theory’ in 1948. The theory uses mathematics to understand the rules governing the transmission of messages through communication systems, applicable to everything from computer code, speech and music, to the dancing of bees.
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    Is this the same Shannon of Nyquist-Shannon?

  • Scratch@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    And then Anarchy Chess joins the server.

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    I mean, there are nearly as many ways to shuffle a deck of cards as there are Adams in the universe.

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      I sure hope there aren’t 52! Adams in the universe, where would they all live?

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        In the Adam singularity, naturally!

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        10 months ago

        Voice dictation gets it wrong every now and then but I’m not about to spend the time to change it.

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          Yeah, just Eve it as it is.

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      You can’t trust Adams. They make up everything.

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    How many universes could a game of Magic the Gathering make?

    • f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz
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      Let’s just say “many!” The game is also proven Turing-complete so you can build a general-purpose computer within it, if you like.

      My quick description of MtG to interested non-players: “One of the original CCGs, created by a math professor, like chess but you build your army from a pool of tens of thousands of pieces which is then randomized. Richard Garfield somehow patented turning cards sideways. 😅”

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      Standard or commander?

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    Go players be like 🙄

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