Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 19:28:32 05/28/02
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On May 28, 2002 at 17:18:37, J. Wesley Cleveland wrote: >Currently, processor speed and hard disk size are also increasing exponentially. >As long as this continues, we will be able to generate larger and larger >tablebases. If this is the case, then it's obviously growing at a much lower exponential rate, since the 5-man tablebases can be generated in a matter of hours and will fit on almost any new computer's hard drive, and the 6-man tablebase will take several years to complete and will probably not fit on any new computer's hard drive even in a few years when they are completed. So the problem still exists. The rate of growth of the size and space used by the tablebases is increasing at a much higher rate than the speed and storage capacity of computers, so the problem still exists regardless of whether both factors are growing at an exponential rate. Russell
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