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Understanding Computer Reliability at Scale

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A typical computer has a failure rate of about one undetected error per several hundred years of operation, thanks to built-in error detection and correction mechanisms.

Why this is interesting

Your computer performs billions of operations every second, yet it almost never crashes. How does it manage to be so reliable when its components are made of atoms and can fail?