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Subject: Re: Nalimov Tablebases

Author: Mike Hood

Date: 18:56:21 04/04/05

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On April 04, 2005 at 18:31:53, Helmut Conrady wrote:

>On April 04, 2005 at 15:20:23, George Tsavdaris wrote:
>
>>On April 04, 2005 at 07:35:51, Renze Steenhuisen wrote:
>>
>>>On April 04, 2005 at 06:32:14, George Tsavdaris wrote:
>>>
>>>>>Do you realize how many DVD's that will take?  :)
>>>>No:-)
>>>> I guessed it will take around 4-5 DVD's. But even 5-15 would not be a big
>>>>problem, i want to believe.........
>>>>
>>>> Can you give a rough approximation of how many GB's are the whole 6
>>>>piece.......?
>>>
>>>Dude!
>>>
>>>3-men:   62.5 KByte
>>>4-men:   29.5 MByte
>>>5-men:    6.9 GByte
>>>6-men: ~600   GByte (up until now!)
>>>
>>>You do the math how many DVD's that will be... Only 247 out of 365 of the 6-men
>>>are done by the way.
>>
>>Oops yeah! I incorrectly assumed 100 MB for the whole 5 piece tablebases, while
>>this is for a single (the mean value) 5-piece endgame........
>>So they should find another storage way for 6 piece tablebase distribution.....
>>
>>>
>>>Cheers!
>>>
>>>Renze
>
>In 2006 we will probably have harddisks with a capacity over 1 Terabyte, which
>will be enough for all 6-men.
>
>Helmut

Really, Helmut? I think you're being too optimistic about the increase in hard
disk sizes. If you're right I'll buy you a beer at my local pub. If not, I
expect you to pay.




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