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Not so fast, it's currently 98.59%. That's technically two 9s!
by apetresc 5mo ago
Not so fast, it's currently 98.59%. That's technically two 9s!
- xvedejas 5mo agoIf 90% is one nine and 99% is two nines, we can use the logarithm to compute how many fractional nines we have at 98.59%: about 1.9788 nines (almost two!)
- make3 5mo agoand a countable infinity of other invisible smaller ones!!
- raffael_de 5mo agohow is this counted? is 79% "one nine"?
- ramon156 5mo agoIts a joke >=90 -> one 9 >=99 -> two 9's >=99.9 -> three 9's Also, you can think of e.g. five 9's as five minutes of downtime per year
- raffael_de 5mo agogot the joke. but it drove home that i wasn't sure how it's counted. thx