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It may be silly but if something is unlikely I stop and remind myself: if something is a 'one in a million' chance, then it happened to 7000 people today.
by iNerdier 10y ago
It may be silly but if something is unlikely I stop and remind myself: if something is a 'one in a million' chance, then it happened to 7000 people today.
- cafebabbe 10y ago"one in a million" happens several times per second, in todays CPUs :) Fun small experiment. Pick a random number between 1 and 15000000 (odds for winning the lottery in my country). Loop until you pick it again (i know it's pseudorandom and cylic; but the period seems big enough for the experiment). Watch how freaking fast it happens (sub-second), and how many iterations it took (dozens of millions).
- AstralStorm 10y agoAlso why ECC memory is used... and chances to corrupt a bit of memory are much lower than that.