On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> 1 in 10^9
On further thought, I think that's short for "1 (unit of storage) in 10^9
(units of storage)", and since TTBOMK the "unit of storage" on all optical
discs is the bit, that'd be 1 in 10^9 bits, which is 37-38 errors per 4.7
GB.
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