alt Hacker NewsNot so fast, it's currently 98.59%. That's technically two 9s!
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raffael_de • yesterday at 10:43 PM
how is this counted? is 79% "one nine"?
make3 • yesterday at 9:30 PM
and a countable infinity of other invisible smaller ones!!
Not so fast, it's currently 98.59%. That's technically two 9s!
how is this counted? is 79% "one nine"?
and a countable infinity of other invisible smaller ones!!
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!)