Not so fast, it's currently 98.59%. That's technically two 9s!

xvedejas 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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 5 hours ago | parent [-]

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

	▲	xvedejas 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, you're correct about that

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raffael_de 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

how is this counted? is 79% "one nine"?

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make3 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

and a countable infinity of other invisible smaller ones!!