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Comment by xvedejas

16 hours ago

If 90% is one nine and 99% is two nines, we can use the logarithm to compute how many fractional nines we have at 98.59%: about 1.9788 nines (almost two!)

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bhelkey  16 hours ago

I think it was a joke that 98.59% has 2 '9's: 9X.X9%.

  • xvedejas  16 hours ago

    Yes, you're correct about that

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