Comment by namaria
1 year ago
I'm afraid it's not just sentence structure that is the problem here:
> one and 100th of the data was missing
No idea what that means
> an advertisement of a person’s or a group’s promotion
What in god's name is an "advertisement of a group's promotion"?
I was illustrating to the concept if you have a database solution that loses data randomly it would be seen as a joke compared to a dual entry ledger seen here. It feels like they were promoting themselves instead of addressing a real problem since dual entry ledgers have been used before computers in finance.
Did you mean just "one hundredth?" (i.e., 1%)? "One and one hundredth" suggests 101% to a native English speaker.
Edit: ah, you probably spoke "one one hundredth" and got a transcription error.
Transcription error meant to say 1% of all updates to a database (such as an insert) failed.
I read that as "(an advertisement of a person) or (a group's promotion)".
>> one and 100th of the data was missing
>No idea what that means
1/100th of a dollar is a cent - goes towards the "missing cents" glossed over by calling that "dancing cents" in the blog post.
Meant to say 1% or 1/100 of inserts failed.
Yes, but why one and 1/100th?
Turns out people have different ways of saying the same concept because language is ultimately human and not a mathematical proof.
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