Author: Sune Fischer
Date: 15:40:18 01/22/02
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On January 22, 2002 at 17:59:24, James T. Walker wrote: >On January 22, 2002 at 14:40:46, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>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. :) > >Well I was responding to the math problem he posted. >"7,589,867,520 bytes/1024^3 = 7.068 gigabytes" >When I divide 7,589,867,520 by 1024^3 I get 7411.98 which is what you had. no because 1024^3 means 1024*1024*1024, so 7,589,867,520 /(1024*1024*1024) = 7.06861 >Now If 1 gigabyte is 1024 Megabytes and 1 Megabyte is 1024 Kilobytes and 1 >Kiltbyte is 1024 bytes then you have to divide by 1024 several times and then >you get the 7.0686 Gigabytes. Exactly ;) Of cause Hyatt is correct that G for giga is actually 1,000,000,000 and not 1024^3, only computer folks misuse the k, M and G when talking about diskspace. -S.
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