Author: Anthony Cozzie
Date: 11:30:18 08/04/04
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On August 04, 2004 at 12:10:21, Mihaly Szalai wrote: >On August 04, 2004 at 11:57:10, Vincent Lejeune wrote: > >>On August 04, 2004 at 11:21:45, Mihaly Szalai wrote: >> >>>On August 04, 2004 at 11:13:52, Anthony Cozzie wrote: >>> >>>>On August 04, 2004 at 11:02:12, Mihaly Szalai wrote: >>>> >>>>>On August 04, 2004 at 10:52:07, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>On August 04, 2004 at 07:29:43, Anson T J wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>>How much storage space is required for all available 3-6 piece tablebases? I >>>>>>>downloaded the 3-5 piece ones from Robert Hyatt's website a few years ago. I'm >>>>>>>thinking of getting the available 6 piece ones now but would like to know what >>>>>>>I'm letting myself in for. >>>>>>> >>>>>>>Also can they be used in recent chessbase programs? >>>>>>> >>>>>>>Thanks in advance. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>They are not all completed yet. Plan on over one terabyte. (1000 gigabytes). >>>>> >>>>>Actually 1024 gigabytes...;) >>>> >>>>Unless you are a harddrive manufacturer, when 1 TB = 1000000000000 bytes. >>>> >>>>anthony >>> >>>I didn't know that. >>> >>>Can you explain why is it so? >>> >>>TIA >>>Mihaly >> >> >>Because it's like that :> >>harwdare manufacturer save 2.4% (1024 -> 1000) each time we jump a "unit" (KB, >>MB, GB, TB,...) >>Because they use the logical value for multiplicator : Kilo = *1000, Mega = >>*1000 000 , etc ... > >Thank you. >I'd flunk in high school today... and get a job as a harwdare manufacturer ;) > >Mihaly basically they are cheap bastards. It really does add up though: there is about a 7% difference between 2^30 and 10^9. anthony
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