Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 23:21:28 05/28/02
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Judging from a conservative estimate based on the existing sizes of the tablebase files for each "level" (3, 4, 5...), I think that the entire 7-piece tablebases will be cutting it close to fit onto a single one of those pieces of 25.6 TB storage media. So, maybe in the future after quite a few years when the 7-piece tablebases are complete, there will be something bigger and faster and cheaper, so I suppose technology could keep up. That of course depends on how much one of those things actually is :) If it's a million dollars, it might still be well out of the reach of the average person in 20 years. I guess we'll just have to see, unless someone can give us some accurate estimations of the sizes of the files, or a formula to compute how much space each level will consume. Russell
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