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Comment by monktastic1

1 year ago

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.

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zitterbewegung  1 year ago

Transcription error meant to say 1% of all updates to a database (such as an insert) failed.

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