Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 18:22:53 09/06/02
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On September 06, 2002 at 18:48:01, Eugene Nalimov wrote: >Actually, I generated all 3+3 and 4+2 pawnless tables but two; twose last two >are being generated right now. > >After that I'll start 6-men with pawns. > >I just cannot transfer those tables to your site. Probably I should just send >you disk drive by mail... Can you find XP computer with 1394 connector for the >external disk? > >Thanks, >Eugene You are talking about IEEE 1394 firewire? Yes, we have such a box. We use a firewire disk to store "images" of our windows 2000 stuff so that if something goes wrong, we can push the whole kit and kaboodle back out to the machine... But I must ask... how big a firewire drive are you going to send? IE how big is my ftp machine going to have to be? :) > >On September 06, 2002 at 18:38:48, Robert Hyatt 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. >>> >>>Regards, >>>Dieter >> >> >>The threes/fours/fives are 7.5 gigs already. But even more importantly, >>the 6's are going to blow a byte for scores... So they are going to be >>twice the size to boot. >> >>I already have some compressed 6 piece tables that are > 2.0 gigabytes. We >>have almost 100 gigs with no pawns done yet, and not all of 3 vs 3 are >>done yet... much less 4 vs 2, 1 vs 5 and then those pawns... >> >>IMHO a terabyte is a lower bound... not upper.
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