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Subject: Re: what are the most important Six man tablebases?

Author: Dieter Buerssner

Date: 13:58:50 09/06/02

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On September 06, 2002 at 16:32:25, Tony Werten wrote:

>On September 06, 2002 at 16:27:22, Dieter Buerssner wrote:
>
>>On September 06, 2002 at 16:14:19, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>>What is the estimated size [of kppkpp]?
>>
>>>at least 1000 gigabytes (a terabyte)
>>
>>How do you estimate this?
>>
>>My simple estimation (ignoring the ep problem, but it should not make a bigger
>>factor) would be:
>>
>>3612 * 48 *47 / 2 * 46 * 45 / 2
>>
>>which would make 4 Gb positions, compressed obviously less. Even 64^6 (taking no
>>symmetry into account) is "only" 64 gigabytes.
>
>Bob gave an estimate of all the files (ie conversions) wich I wanted to know.
>You changed my question.

Sorry then. I really misunderstood your question. To my excuse, I want to say,
if I relook at the context, it could be easily understood as a question of the
size of kppkpp only:

>>>>And which ones is a must have?
>>>KPPkpp :) but that will take some more time.
>>And one hell of a lot of disk space.
>What is the estimated size ?

You and Bob meant the estimated size of kppkpp and all conversions. I obviously
understood it (influenced by your first answer, that is shown as >>>) as the
size of the most useful 6-men TB.

Regards,
Dieter





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