Author: Mihaly Szalai
Date: 09:10:21 08/04/04
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On August 04, 2004 at 11:57:10, Vincent Lejeune wrote: >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 ... Thank you. I'd flunk in high school today... and get a job as a harwdare manufacturer ;) Mihaly
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