> IBM estimated in 1996 that one error per month per 256 MiB of RAM was expected for a desktop computer.

From the wikipedia article on "Soft error", if anyone wants to extrapolate.

That makes it vanishingly unlikely. On a 16GB RAM computer with that rate, you can expect 64 random bit flips per month.

So roughly you could expect this happen roughly once every two hundred million years.

Assuming there are about 2 billion Windows computers in use, that’s about 10 computers a year that experience this bit flip.

> 10 computers a year experience this bit flip

That's wildly more than I would have naively expected to experience a specific bit-flip. Wow!

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