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In one game, it asked me "Is it hard" and "Is it soft". Maybe some work could be done to eliminate questions that are opposites. I could be wrong with my assumption, but I can't think of anything that's both hard and soft or white and green.

• The maximum index for objects and questions is 65536 because they use SMALLINT

DATA FROM 20Q

Plays   Objs     Ques      Synaps   Hit rate
1996    2k          
1998                                40%
2004    1m       10k       10m      73%
2006    16m             
Handhld          2k        250k     80%

• If the number of yes or no for a given (q,obj) < 65535 then the number of bits needed are:
  THE DECIMAL SCALING FACTOR ("DEC") is 65536

VAR | MIN | MAX | BITS
---------+---------+--------+--------
yes | 0 | 65535 | 16
pyes2 | 0 | 2*DEC | 17
pyes2min1 | -DEC | DEC | 16 + signed
logpyes2 | -14.99 | 1 | 20 + signed

note: p will never be 0 or 1, so that shaves a bit off of those

CLIP OBJECT HITS WITH:
update objects set hits=4 where hits>4;
UPDATE objects SET loghits=log2(hits+1)*65536

When the game says "I am guessing that it is a potato" and I say that's wrong. It should insert into the list "I am guessing that it is a potato — wrong" instead of, what it currently does, "I am guessing that it is — wrong"