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Subject: Re: Tablebase Question

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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