And that's why I say that it works for the vast majority of instructions that are executed. There is that slim chance that it will flub up, but that kind of err

And that's why I say that it works for the vast majority of instructions that are executed. There is that slim chance that it will flub up, but that kind of error either: A) gets caught in the hardware or B) completely takes down the operating system or app. The likelihood of some cosmic ray flipping a bit of a counter variable in some loop's sub-millisecond lifespan is just so unimaginably small you can count it impossible.