It must some power of 2 but my maths was never that good...

Regards,
Alastair.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "van der Zwaag, Frank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "RBG7-L Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2004 9:35 PM
Subject: [RBG7-L] - RE: R:BASE Turbo V-8 (Enterprise Edition) File Size
Limit


> There must be a solution for that problem. Have you tried an Abacus? May
do
> the trick since we're talking floppies.
>
> I think we ought to give a prize for the most novel way of calculating the
> amount of floppies required to store that amount of data.
>
> ;)
>
> Frank
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alastair
> Burr
> Sent: Sunday, 20 June 2004 01:41
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [RBG7-L] - RE: R:BASE Turbo V-8 (Enterprise Edition) File Size
> Limit
>
>
> One box might be a bit tough - I thought about trying to work out how many
> "normal" floppies might be needed but the calculator doesn't have enough
> space to key in all those numbers and - although some may think
otherwise -
> I don't have enough fingers and toes to do the long division.
>
> Regards,
> Alastair.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Javier Valencia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "RBG7-L Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2004 1:50 AM
> Subject: [RBG7-L] - RE: R:BASE Turbo V-8 (Enterprise Edition) File Size
> Limit
>
>
> > Alastair:
> > Come to think I still have a box of brand new 8", 200 Kb Shugart
floppies
> > (old timers know what they are); that ought to do the trick...
> > Javier,
> >
> > Javier Valencia, PE
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> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alastair
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> > Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 6:40 PM
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> > Subject: [RBG7-L] - RE: R:BASE Turbo V-8 (Enterprise Edition) File Size
> > Limit
> >
> > You've still got floppy disks, haven't you, Javier?
> >
> > Regards,
> > alastair.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Javier Valencia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "RBG7-L Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 10:05 PM
> > Subject: [RBG7-L] - RE: R:BASE Turbo V-8 (Enterprise Edition) File Size
> > Limit
> >
> >
> > > R:azzak:
> > > >>> The answer is: 18,446,744,073,709,551,615 bytes or 18.4 petabytes
> > >
> > > That's all? When can we expect the Viper V-12 version???
> > > Of course... you realize that I am just kidding...it is
mind-boggling!!!
> > > I just have one question...how in the world do you backup a database
> this
> > > large? <LOL>
> > > Javier,
> > >
> > > Javier Valencia, PE
> > > President
> > > Valencia Technology Group, L.L.C.
> > > 14315 S. Twilight Ln, Suite #14
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> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of A. Razzak
> > Memon
> > > Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 12:58 PM
> > > To: RBG7-L Mailing List
> > > Subject: [RBG7-L] - R:BASE Turbo V-8 (Enterprise Edition) File Size
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> > >
> > >
> > > Folks,
> > >
> > > Would you like to know the new file size limit of R:BASE Turbo V-8?
> > >
> > > The answer is: 18,446,744,073,709,551,615 bytes or 18.4 petabytes
> > >
> > > Imagine the Possibilities!
> > >
> > > Very Best R:egards,
> > >
> > > Razzak.
> > >
> >
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