Author: Vincent Lejeune
Date: 08:57:10 08/04/04
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On August 04, 2004 at 11:21:45, Mihaly Szalai wrote: >On August 04, 2004 at 11:13:52, Anthony Cozzie wrote: > >>On August 04, 2004 at 11:02:12, Mihaly Szalai wrote: >> >>>On August 04, 2004 at 10:52:07, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>> >>>>On August 04, 2004 at 07:29:43, Anson T J wrote: >>>> >>>>>How much storage space is required for all available 3-6 piece tablebases? I >>>>>downloaded the 3-5 piece ones from Robert Hyatt's website a few years ago. I'm >>>>>thinking of getting the available 6 piece ones now but would like to know what >>>>>I'm letting myself in for. >>>>> >>>>>Also can they be used in recent chessbase programs? >>>>> >>>>>Thanks in advance. >>>> >>>> >>>>They are not all completed yet. Plan on over one terabyte. (1000 gigabytes). >>> >>>Actually 1024 gigabytes...;) >> >>Unless you are a harddrive manufacturer, when 1 TB = 1000000000000 bytes. >> >>anthony > >I didn't know that. > >Can you explain why is it so? > >TIA >Mihaly Because it's like that :> harwdare manufacturer save 2.4% (1024 -> 1000) each time we jump a "unit" (KB, MB, GB, TB,...) Because they use the logical value for multiplicator : Kilo = *1000, Mega = *1000 000 , etc ...
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