whether of the number of stars in the galaxy or the number of possible bridge hands, is too immense for the mind to enumerate
Are the calculations the computer can do too immense for the mind to understand?
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Take , for example. This behemoth, equal to 9387,420,489, has 369,693,100 digits
What application does using exponents like this have?
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There are only about 35 legal choices for each chess move, but the choices multiply exponentially to yield something like 1050 possible board positions—too many for even a computer to search exhaustively
It is very interesting to think about how many possible moves there could be in a game of chess. Its crazy to think about how many champions of chess try to predict their opponents next move with as many options as there are. What is even more interesting is how this many combinations is even too exhausting for a computer to solve.
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