On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 02:49:17PM +0200, Oskar Sandberg wrote: > On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 03:02:24AM -0700, Patrick Oscar Boykin wrote: > <> > > To sum it up, in the above example, with a freenet with 99% success > > rate, and 2MB splitfiles, an ISO image can be successfully downloaded > > with probability 0.38% (yes, that's less than 1% not 38%), on the other > > hand, using an erasure code, one could make the file slightly more than > > 1% bigger, and have a probability exponentially close to 1 of > > successfully downloading the file. Which do you think is best? > > Actually, it's 3.8% (.99**325=.0381) so there! :-)~
Whoops... sorry about that! I should not be using calculators so early in the morning.... :) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pobox.com/~boykin ICQ: 5118680 Key fingerprint = 159A FA02 DF12 E72F B68F 5B2D C368 3BCA 36D7 CF28
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