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Subject: Re: Is there a limit on our ability to compute endgame tablebases?

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 11:43:37 05/28/02

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On May 28, 2002 at 09:40:09, David Dory wrote:

>I wouldn't quit the TB calculations just yet.

I'm not saying we should just yet. I'm saying that eventually the next set of
TB's will be too large to fit on anything in existence.

>I've seen data tapes/drives whose creators (Ampex Corp.), claim one cassette
>(we're talking about a cassette you hold with BOTH hands here), would hold the
>entire card file for the library of congress.

That doesn't sound very large, but maybe I'm not sure what it is. If it's just a
large library, I don't see why something like that couldn't fit on a CD or DVD,
or maybe a handful of DVD's.

Anyway, eventually these tapes you speak of will not be able to hold even a
single tablebase file. I'm asking about what will happen when we get to that
point.

Russell



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