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Subject: Re: Tablebases

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 11:40:46 01/22/02

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On January 22, 2002 at 12:38:17, James T. Walker wrote:

>On January 22, 2002 at 12:26:30, Sune Fischer wrote:
>
>>On January 22, 2002 at 11:58:39, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On January 22, 2002 at 10:30:51, James T. Walker wrote:
>>>
>>>>On January 22, 2002 at 10:27:30, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On January 22, 2002 at 04:57:05, Sune Fischer wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On January 22, 2002 at 00:35:48, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>On January 21, 2002 at 18:50:22, David Rasmussen wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>How much space does all the 5-man tables take?
>>>>>>>>When people write 3-4-5 man tablebases, do they mean _all_ of them, or just all
>>>>>>>>3 and 4 man, and then some 5 man. If yes, which ones?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>/David
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>All of the 3/4/5 piece files require about 7.5 gigs of space...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I think you mean 7.05 GB.
>>>>>>:)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>-S.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>No... I mean _exactly_ 7411980 bytes.
>>>>>
>>>>>:)
>>>>
>>>>If you have only 7 Megabytes you are missing a lot
>>>
>>>
>>>Sorry... that was in terms of 1024 byte blocks.  I have 'em all, believe
>>>me.  :)
>>>
>>>that is 7,589,867,520 bytes if my math works out right.  :)
>>
>>
>>and 7,589,867,520 bytes/1024^3 = 7.068 gigabytes :)
>
>Not on my calculator!


Depends on your definition of "gigabyte".  If you use the rounded value of
1,000,000,000 bytes, you get one answer. If you use the right power of 2,
(2^30) you get a different answer.  :)



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