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Subject: Re: Tablebase Question

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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