Reminds me of my attempt to compute the number of Go positions, which similarly needed many TB of disk space and ended up generating 30 petabytes of disk IO. h

Reminds me of my attempt to compute the number of Go positions, which similarly needed many TB of disk space and ended up generating 30 petabytes of disk IO. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9167781 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9167781 Number of legal 18x18 Go positions computed. One more to go https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10950875 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10950875 Number of legal Go positions computed Not much point in breaking that record, as 19x19 is the largest (and standard size) Go board.