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! :-)~ > > Oscar. > -- > boykin at pobox.com http://pobox.com/~boykin ICQ: 5118680 > Key fingerprint = 159A FA02 DF12 E72F B68F 5B2D C368 3BCA 36D7 CF28 -- Though here at journey's end I lie In darkness buried deep, above all shadows rides the Sun beyond all towers strong and high, and the Stars forever dwell: beyond all mountains steep, I will not say the Day is done, nor bid the Stars farewell. (JRRT) Oskar Sandberg oskar at freenetproject.org _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl
