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.... :) -- boykin at pobox.com http://pobox.com/~boykin ICQ: 5118680 Key fingerprint = 159A FA02 DF12 E72F B68F 5B2D C368 3BCA 36D7 CF28 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20011010/3a1ad387/attachment.pgp>
