coloin wrote:I am pretty sure that most of the tridagons in miths file are the simple type ..[ with one guardian]
But a filter for these or without these would be useful either way !!!!
except
looking back to miths thread ... it seems he is way ahead ... on page 1 he and denis explored the min guardian and max guardian count...and the term "non-degenerative" was introduced [yuk] and posted a few puzzles with high guardian counts.... but denis alluded correctly that this very much depends on the expansion status ..
So the "simple" type [as above] is the "non-degenerated" type ?
Here is the result of a check made by "blue"
mith's list has 2,113,220 puzzles of the first type, over 28026 "starts", and 1,629,623 puzzles of the 2nd type, over 19937 "starts".
So you are likely right, this is the majority of mith's file. I am not 100% sure that they are all "non degenerative "
And yes, if I study puzzles with the type 1 or 2 seen in the start PM, the case "after easy moves " has to be considered.
but it is far from obvious !
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