When a 33% Success Rate Outperforms 99.999%

Posted by jeffrey-sherman on Thursday October 12, 2023 @10:30PM
from the shermanonsoftware.com dept.

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Re:When a 33% Success Rate Outperforms 99.999% by pliesfan97 on Thursday October 12, 2023 @11:01PM (#37866086)

Won’t you need to retry more than 300,000 times for 100,000 original processes? Unless of course the retry somehow has a 100% success rate.

The article makes a good point though.

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