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Comment by npilk

By the way, for anyone wondering/unfamiliar, the scale of this tournament is such that it's not realistically possible to enumerate all possible outcomes, let alone submit them to a site like this. With 63 games, there are 2^63 possible brackets, and it takes 63 bits to encode each possibility.

2^63 brackets * 8 bytes/bracket ~= 74 exabytes - just to list all possible combinations!

There are many combinations that are completely unlikely, but even if you could reduce this by 90% (I doubt it) it's still infeasible to even list all the combinations.

Someday, in another 20-30 years, this might be achievable. Somehow I feel like it will be a sad day when that happens. Of course the tournament will probably have expanded to 128 by then making it safely out of reach of computation.

parent npilk 7 months ago

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