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per object. So although the chance of losing any particular object is tiny, the chance of you losing something is proportional† to the number of objects. Still
by Jabbles 14y ago
per object. So although the chance of losing any particular object is tiny, the chance of you losing something is proportional† to the number of objects. Still extremely small.
†roughly proportional if you have << 1e11 objects
- gjm11 14y agoYes. Though I bet the real lossage probabilities are dominated by failure events that take out a substantial fraction of all the objects there are, and that happen a lot more often than once per 10^11 years.
- metalruler 14y agoAgreed. More likely a catastrophic and significant loss for a small number of customers rather than a fraction of a percentage of loss for a large number. Similar deal for hard drive bit error rates, where the quoted average BER may not necessarily accurately represent what can happen in the real world. For example, an unrecoverable read error loses 4096 bits (512 byte sectors) or 32768 bits (4k sectors) all at once, rather than individual bits randomly flipped over a long period.