><<At present we find approx. 1% of the LL
>test results submitted are incorrect.>>
>That figure seems a tad high. After double-checking, there would be a 0.01%
>chance that BOTH tests had failed, which seems very high to me.
Well, the likelyhood that a failure occurs may be 1%, but the likelyhood
that a double check will not catch it is much lower. This is do to the
fact that (barring bugs), the likelyhood that the numbers produce the same
64-bit residue is very, very low. Probably somewhere between 2^-64 and 2^-128.
-Lucas
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