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Subject: Re: FMD-ROM : 140 Gb for your tablebases!

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 15:57:14 03/22/00

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On March 21, 2000 at 09:04:06, Bernhard Bauer wrote:

>As a rule of thumb the number of files for n+1 men tablebases is 4 times the
>number of n men files. The size is going up with a factor of ~60. So if you
>need 5 gigs for the 5-men class you will need about 1.2 tera bytes for the
>6-men class. This is "only" 30 40-gig drives.
>IMHO it would make a good project for a university to generate and hold them on
>disk.
>
>Kind regards
>Bernhard

Why would this be a good project for a university?

It seems to me that it would be a better project for someone with a lot of money
and nothing better to do with it.

Dave



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