On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 03:02:24AM -0700, Patrick Oscar Boykin wrote:
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> 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.
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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

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