Author: J. Wesley Cleveland
Date: 09:54:30 10/28/02
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On October 26, 2002 at 12:42:26, John Merlino wrote: >On October 26, 2002 at 12:23:33, ronald wrote: > >>this may be silly but how many gigs would it take to have a 32-man >>tablebase?also how long to download in years? > >We're no longer talking about gigabytes. Even with just the complete SIX-man >we're no longer talking about gigabytes. Crude estimates show that the complete >6-man set will require at least 1 terabyte (1024 gigs). Given that that is over >100 times larger than the complete 5-man set, you can go ahead and do the math >for the complete 32-man set. I don't think there are enough atoms in the >universe.... :-) > >jm I'm afraid you are way off here. There are *only* about 10^50 possible positions, and there are more atoms in the earth than that.
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